This collection of V.S. Naipul's essays, the first of two volumes,
features pieces taken from his earlier books - 'The Overcrowded
Barracoon', 'The Return of Eva Peron' and 'Finding the Centre' and other
essays. It concentrates on his writings about India, the Americas,
Africa and the Diaspora.


Writer and the World: Essays

Spanning four decades and four continents, this magisterial volume brings together the essential shorter works of reflection and reportage by our most sensitive, literate, and undeceivable observer of the post-colonial world. In its pages V. S. Naipaul trains his relentless moral intelligence on societies from India to the United States and sees how each deals with the challenges of modernity and the seductions of both the real and mythical past. <BR>Whether he is writing about a string of racial murders in Trinidad; the mad, corrupt reign of Mobutu in Zaire; Argentina under the generals; or Dallas during the 1984 Republican Convention, Naipaul combines intellectual playfulness with sorrow, indignation, and analysis so far-reaching that it approaches prophecy. The Writer and the World reminds us that he is in a class by himself.

Writer and the World: EssaysPaperback, 1 June 2011

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