114 Pages
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Routledge
114 Pages
by
Routledge
114 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1988, Peter Hughes explores the work of V. S. Naipaul, and the interplay of fictional and non-fictional patters in what is his obsessive vision of human life. Hughes shows how Naipaul’s narratives pair off histories and novels, travel-writing and psycho-biography, reinforcing one another and Naipaul’s vision of ‘a world undoing itself’; a world of disorder and fantasy. He... Read more
Preface and acknowledgements; A note on the texts; 1. A world undoing itself 2. An end of the imagination 3. Islands in air 4. Trapdoors into a bottomless past 5. Plateaux of light; Notes; Bibliography
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Hughes, Peter
