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소장정보
| No. | 소장처 | 청구기호 | 등록번호 | 도서상태 | 반납예정일 | 예약 | 서비스 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. 1 | 소장처 중앙도서관/서고7층/ | 청구기호 823.9 N157r | 등록번호 111217635 (1회 대출) | 도서상태 대출가능 | 반납예정일 | 예약 | 서비스 |
컨텐츠정보
책소개
I was eleven, no more, when the wish came to me to be a writer; and then very soon it was a settled ambition. But for the young V. S. Naipaul, there was a great distance between the wish and its fulfillment. To become a writer, he would have to find ways of understanding three very different cultures: his family's half-remembered Indian homeland, the West Indian colonial society in which he grew up, and the wholly foreign world of the English novels he read.
In this essay of literary autobiography, V. S. Naipaul sifts through memories of his childhood in Trinidad, his university days in England, and his earliest attempts at writing, seeking the experiences of life and reading that shaped his imagination and his growth as a writer. He pays particular attention to the traumas of India under its various conquerors and the painful sense of dereliction and loss that shadows writers' attempts to capture the country and its people in prose.
Naipaul's profound reflections on the relations between personal or historical experience and literary form, between the novel and the world, reveal how he came to discover both his voice and the subjects of his writing, and how he learned to turn sometimes to fiction, sometimes to the travel narrative, to portray them truthfully. Along the way he offers insights into the novel's prodigious development as a form for depicting and interpreting society in the nineteenth century and its diminishing capacity to do the same in the twentiethÑa task that, in his view, passed to the creative energies of the early cinema.
As a child trying to read, I had felt that two worlds separated me from the books that were offered to me at school and in the libraries: the childhood world of our remembered India, and the more colonial world of our city. ... What I didn't know, even after I had written my early books of fiction ... was that those two spheres of darkness had become my subject. Fiction, working its mysteries, by indirections finding directions out, had led me to my subject. But it couldn't take me all the way. -V.S. Naipaul, from Reading & Writing
Reviews
"[A] beautiful meditation on his imaginative awakening..." —The Post and Courier"This essay is fundamentally important to any young writer." —The Times
"As sharp and lucid as a spear of glass..." —The Observer
About the Author
V. S. Naipaul (1932-2018) was born in Trinidad and emigrated to England in 1950, when he won a scholarship to University College, Oxford. He was the author of many novels, including A House for Mr. Biswas, A Bend in the River, and In a Free State, which won the Booker Prize. He has also written several nonfiction works based on his travels, including India: A Million Mutinies Now and Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples. He was knighted in 1990 and in 1993 was the first recipient of the David Cohen British Literature Prize.정보제공 :
저자소개
V. S. 나이폴(지은이)
영국령 트리니다드 토바고에서 인도 이민자 3세로 태어났다. 1950년에 정부 장학금을 받고 옥스퍼드 대학교로 유학을 갔으며, 졸업 후 BBC 방송국에서 작가 겸 편집자로 일했다. 1957년에 첫 소설 『신비한 안마사』를 출간하고 이 작품으로 존 루엘린 라이스 상을 수상했다. 소설과 논픽션 작품들을 연이어 발표하며 문학계에서 인정받았으나, 에드워드 사이드 등의 지식인들에게 식민지 역사와 제3세계의 현실을 외면한다는 비판도 받았다. 식민지 출신 작가에게 기대되는 지배자 대 피지배자 구도의 담론 대신 식민지인들의 내부 갈등을 주로 다루어 이러한 비판을 불러일으켰으나, 나이폴에게 식민지 상황은 피지배자들이 겪은 공통적인 역사적 사건인 동시에, 주변인으로서 혼란 속에 내던져진 한 인간의 지극히 개인적인 상황이기도 했다. 이러한 특성은 오히려 제3세계라는 지역적 문제에 치우치지 않고 보편성을 획득했다는 평가를 받기도 한다. 처음으로 영국에서의 삶에 대해 쓴『도착의 수수께끼』는 식민지 출신 작가 나이폴을 평생 따라다닌 정체성과 글쓰기에 관한 고뇌와 해답이 담긴, 문학적 완결판 같은 작품이다. 『비스와스 씨를 위한 집』 『미겔 스트리트』 『자유 국가에서』 『흉내 내는 사람들 』 『강굽이』 등 다수의 소설과 논픽션을 발표했다. 서머싯 몸 상, 부커 상, 호손 상, 데이비드 코언 영국 문학상 등을 수상했으며, 문학적 공로를 인정받아 영국 기사 작위를 받았다. 2001년에는 노벨문학상을 수상했다. 2018년 8월 자택에서 별세했다.