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The Enigma of Arrival

- A Novel in Five Sections
Af: V.S. Naipaul Engelsk Paperback

The Enigma of Arrival

- A Novel in Five Sections
Af: V.S. Naipaul Engelsk Paperback
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Taking its title from the strangely frozen picture by the surrealist painter Giorgio de Chirico, The Enigma of Arrival tells the story of a young Indian from the Caribbean arriving in post-imperial England and consciously, over many years, finding himself as a writer. It is the story of a journey, from one place to another, from the British colony of Trinidad to the ancient countryside of England, and from one state of mind to another, and is perhaps V. S. Naipaul’s most autobiographical work. Yet alongside this he weaves a rich and complex web of invention and observation.

Finding depth and pathos in the smallest moments – the death of a cottager, the firing of an estate’s gardener – Naipaul also comprehends the bigger picture – watching as the old world is lost to the gradual but permanent changes wrought on the English landscape by the march of ‘progress’.

‘Written with the expected beauty of style . . . Instead of diminishing life, Naipaul ennobles it’ Anthony Burgess, Observer

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Taking its title from the strangely frozen picture by the surrealist painter Giorgio de Chirico, The Enigma of Arrival tells the story of a young Indian from the Caribbean arriving in post-imperial England and consciously, over many years, finding himself as a writer. It is the story of a journey, from one place to another, from the British colony of Trinidad to the ancient countryside of England, and from one state of mind to another, and is perhaps V. S. Naipaul’s most autobiographical work. Yet alongside this he weaves a rich and complex web of invention and observation.

Finding depth and pathos in the smallest moments – the death of a cottager, the firing of an estate’s gardener – Naipaul also comprehends the bigger picture – watching as the old world is lost to the gradual but permanent changes wrought on the English landscape by the march of ‘progress’.

‘Written with the expected beauty of style . . . Instead of diminishing life, Naipaul ennobles it’ Anthony Burgess, Observer

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 400
ISBN-13: 9780330522861
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0330522868
Kategori: Wiltshire
Udg. Dato: 1 apr 2011
Længde: 26mm
Bredde: 130mm
Højde: 197mm
Forlag: Pan Macmillan
Oplagsdato: 1 apr 2011
Forfatter(e): V.S. Naipaul
Forfatter(e) V.S. Naipaul

Kategori Wiltshire

ISBN-13 9780330522861

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 400

Udgave

Længde 26mm

Bredde 130mm

Højde 197mm

Udg. Dato 1 apr 2011

Oplagsdato 1 apr 2011

Forlag Pan Macmillan

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