India: a Wounded Civilization

by V.S.Naipaul (Author)

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  2002

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  In 1964 V.S. Naipaul published An Area of Darkness, his semi-autobiographical account of a year in India. Two visits later, prompted by the Emergency of 1975, he came to write India: A Wounded Civilization, in which he casts a more analytical eye over Indian attitudes. In this work, he recapitulates and further investigates the feelings that the vast, mysterious and agonised continent has previously aroused in him. What he sees and what he hears - evoked so superbly and vividly in this book - only reinforce in him his conviction that India, wounded by a thousand years of foreign rule, has not yet found an ideology of regeneration.

  'A devastating work' The Times

  'Brilliant' Spectator

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  1998

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  V.S. Naipaul's fascinating account of his journey around India approaches this shifting, changing land from a variety of perspectives. Through interviews with people from many different walks of life, he builds an oral history of a country constantly on the move.

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  1990

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  In this book, V.S.Naipaul returns to the country which continues to intrigue and inspire him and about which he wrote An Area of Darkness in 1964, a semi-autobiographical account of a year spent in India. Now, twenty-five years later, he goes back to that country, returning to the places he visited years ago and talking to people of all types and at all levels of society. Naipaul started writing in 1954 he has won the John Llewelyn Rhys Memorial Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, the Hawthornden Prize, the W.H.Smith Award and the Booker Prize, the latter with the novel In a Free State (1971). His most recently published novels are Guerrillas (1975) and A Bend in the River (1979). He is the author of two books about India, An Area of Darkness (1964) and India: A Wounded Civilization (1977); his other well-known works of non-fiction are The Return of Eva Peron with The Killings in Trinidad (1981); Finding the Centre (1984); and A Turn in the South (1989), which is about South America and was shortlisted for the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award in 1990.