During forty years of travel, V. S. Naipaul has created a
wide-ranging body of work, an exceptional and sustained meditation
on our world. Now his finest pieces of reflection and reportage -
many of which have been unavailable for some time - are collected
in one volume. With an abiding faith in modernity balanced by a
sense of wonder about the past, Naipaul has explored an astonishing
variety of societies and peoples through the prism of his
experience. Whether writing about Indian mutinies and despair,
Mobutu's mad reign in Zaire, or the New York mayoral elections, he
demonstrates time and again that no one has a shrewder intuition of
the ways in which the world works. Infused with a deeply felt
humanism, The Writer and the World attests powerfully not only to
Naipaul's status as the great English prose stylist of our time but
also to his keen, often prophetic, understanding. 'All [of these
essays] are worth reading (and rereading), both for the
contemporary and historical information and insight they artfully
impart and for what they tell us about a uniquely complex writer'
Spectator
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