A remarkable companion piece to The Writer and the World, Naipaul's
previous volume of highly acclaimed essays, Literary Occasions is a
stirring contribution to the fading art of the critic, and a
revelation of a life in letters. In these eleven extended pieces V.
S. Naipaul charts more than half a century of personal enquiry into
the mysteries of the written word and of fiction in particular.
Here are his boyhood experiences of reading books and his first
youthful efforts at writing them; the evolution of his ideas about
the extent to which individual cultures shape identities and
influence literary forms; observations on Conrad, his literary
forebear; the moving preface he wrote to the only book his father
ever published; and his reflections on his career, ending with his
celebrated Nobel lecture, 'Two Worlds'. 'He is an exceptionally
good and perceptive critic - a few passages on Dickens are worth
whole books by others - and when he addresses the art of fiction he
not only writes beautifully (as always) but with complete humility'
New Statesman
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