An Area of Darkness. His Discovery of India (Naipaul V S); Picador, 2010

The first book in V. S. Naipaul's acclaimed Indian trilogy - with a preface by the author.

An Area of Darkness is V. S. Naipaul's semi-autobiographical account - at once painful and hilarious, but always thoughtful and considered - of his first visit to India, the land of his forebears. He was twenty-nine years old; he stayed for a year. From the moment of his inauspicious arrival in Prohibition-dry Bombay, bearing whisky and cheap brandy, he experienced a cultural estrangement from the subcontinent. It became for him a land of myths, an area of darkness closing up behind him as he travelled . . .

The experience was not a pleasant one, but the pain the author suffered was creative rather than numbing, and engendered 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.

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Параметр	Значение
ISBN	9780330522830
Автор(ы)	Naipaul V S
Вес	0.22
Возрастное ограничение	16+
Год издания	2010
Жанр	книги о путешествиях
Издатель	Picador
Издательство	Picador
Кол-во страниц	290
Количество книг	1
Количество страниц	290
Обложка	мягкая обложка
Тип обложки	мягкая