Literary Occasions
17 June 2011Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
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...
Details
17 June 2011224 pages
9780330522977Imprint: Picador
Reviews
An engaging guide to the writing life, full of interest for the would-be novelist.Independent
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
The writing itself is a wonder of clarity, complex ideas given shape in simple English, and achieving that most difficult of tasks – having writer and reader seem simultaneously to be making the same journey.New York Times Book Review
