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A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul | |
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| Name: |
V. S. Naipaul | | Birth Date: |
August 17, 1932 | | Place of Birth: |
Trinidad | | Nationality: |
Bolivian | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
writer |
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 Biography of V. S. Naipaul
1167 words, approx. 3.9 pages
 V. S. Naipaul (born 1932) was one of the foremost spokespersons in English prose of the post-colonial Third World. Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul was born August 17, 1932, in Trinidad, where his grandfather, an indentured worker, had come from India. An a... summary from source:
Biography of V. S. Naipaul
27416 words, approx. 91.4 pages
 "Half the writer's work . . . is the discovery of his subject." With this statement V. S. Naipaul declares his purpose as a writer and the object of his craft—the imaginative shaping of experience into an affecting and intelligent narrative that re... summary from source:
 Biography of V(idiadhar) S(urajprasad) Naipaul
17221 words, approx. 57.4 pages
V. S. Naipaul is both one of the most highly regarded and one of the most controversial of contemporary writers. Widely admired in North America and Europe for the lucidity of his prose style, his incisive travel journalism, and his ironic accounts of co...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 A Bend in the River Information
267 words, approx. 1 pages
A Bend in the River Author V. S. Naipaul Country United Kingdom Language English Genre(s) Novel Publisher Vintage (publisher) Publication date March 13, 1989 (Reissue Edition) Media type Print ( Paperback ) Pages 288 pages ISBN ISBN 0-679-72202-5...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Christopher Wise
7,130 words, approx. 24 pages
In the following essay, Wise contrasts the views of Chinua Achebe and Naipaul on the subject of modern African history and culture as evinced in Achebe's Things Fall Apart and Naipaul's A Bend in the River.
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Critical Essay by Ranu Samantrai
6,814 words, approx. 23 pages
In the following essay, Samantrai examines the function of imperialistic discourse in A Bend in the River and describes the novel as “a fictional documentation of the political shift from colonial to postcolonial Africa.”
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Critical Essay by Christopher Hope
432 words, approx. 1 pages
Reading V. S. Naipaul's new novel A Bend In The River, one is easily reminded of Heart Of Darkness. Resemblances quickly declare themselves…. Conrad's novel is of a time of European ascendancy. Naipaul's book succeeds Conrad's and like it may come to be seen in time as one of the very best things written about Africa. The difference is that A Bend In The River is the story of European, Arab and Asian eclipse…. [Nothing] is pre-ordained in A Bend In The River. True, ...
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