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Spanning continents and centuries and defying literary categories, A Way in the World tells intersecting stories whose protagonists include the disgraced and half-demented Sir Walter Raleigh fruitlessly seeking El Dorado in the New World; the foppish nineteenth-century insurgent Francisco Miranda, who in his quest to liberate South America becomes entangled in his own fantasies and borrowed ideas; and the doomed Blair, a present-day Caribbean revolutionary stranded--and eventually martyred--in East Africa. Among these presences is a narrator who bears a telling resemblance to V.S. Naipaul himself: a Trinidadian writer of Indian ancestry and English residence boldly trying to come to terms with the mystery and transience that is his inheritance--and ours. -- Back cover
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A Way in the World, V. S. Naipaul
- Sprache
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1995
- Einband
- (Paperback)
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- Titel
- A Way in the World
- Untertitel
- A Novel
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- V. S. Naipaul
- Verlag
- Vintage
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1995
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 400
- ISBN10
- 0679761667
- ISBN13
- 9780679761662
- Reihe
- Kategorien
- Schlagwörter
- Historisches Thema, Biografien, Abenteuer, Krimi, Philosophisches Thema, Liebe, Gegenwartsliteratur, Politik, Kriege, 20. Jahrhundert, Bildung, Schule, Geschichten, Britische Literatur, England, Afrika, Englische Literatur, Journalismus, Politische Theorien, Schreiben, Kultur, Rasse, Rassismus, Satire, Magischer Realismus, Nobelpreis, Revolution, Sozialismus, Regierung, Geopolitik, Politische Philosophie, Weltpolitik, Portugiesisch, Auszeichnungen
- Beschreibung
- Spanning continents and centuries and defying literary categories, A Way in the World tells intersecting stories whose protagonists include the disgraced and half-demented Sir Walter Raleigh fruitlessly seeking El Dorado in the New World; the foppish nineteenth-century insurgent Francisco Miranda, who in his quest to liberate South America becomes entangled in his own fantasies and borrowed ideas; and the doomed Blair, a present-day Caribbean revolutionary stranded--and eventually martyred--in East Africa. Among these presences is a narrator who bears a telling resemblance to V.S. Naipaul himself: a Trinidadian writer of Indian ancestry and English residence boldly trying to come to terms with the mystery and transience that is his inheritance--and ours. -- Back cover