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出版Pan Macmillan, 2017
主題Biography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / Asian & Asian AmericanBiography & Autobiography / HistoricalBiography & Autobiography / Literary FiguresBiography & Autobiography / Personal MemoirsHistory / Asia / South / GeneralHistory / Social HistoryHistory / Asia / South / IndiaTravel / Asia / India & South Asia
ISBN15098321229781509832125
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=bT7GAQAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋V.S. Naipaul first visited India in 1962 at twenty-nine. His most recent visit was in 2015 at eighty-two. The intervening years and visits sparked by an inquisitiveness about a country he had never seen but had been a dream of his since childhood have resulted in three books: India: An Area of Darkness, A Wounded Civilization and A Million Mutinies Now. India is the collection of all three, introduced by fellow traveller and writer Paul Theroux. An Area of Darkness is V. S. Naipauls semi-autobiographical account at once painful and hilarious, but always thoughtful and considered of his first visit to India, the land of his forebears. From the moment of his inauspicious arrival he experienced a cultural estrangement from the subcontinent. India was land of myths, an area of darkness closing up behind him as he travelled. What emerged was a masterful work of literature that provides a revelation both of India and of himself: a displaced person who paradoxically possesses a stronger sense of place than almost anyone. India: A Wounded Civilization casts a more analytical eye than before over Indian attitudes, while recapitulating and further probing the feelings aroused in him by this vast, mysterious, and agonized country. A work of fierce candour and precision, it is also a generous description of one mans complicated relationship with the country of his ancestors. India: A Million Mutinies Now is the fascinating account of Naipauls return journey to India and offers a kaleidoscopic, layered travelogue, encompassing a wide collage of religions, castes, and classes at a time when the percolating ideas of freedom threatened to shake loose the old ways. The brilliance of the book lies in Naipaul's approach to a shifting, changing land from a variety of perspectives.