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The Guardian view on writers’ houses: a museum of one’s own | Editorial
By EditorialThe Wordsworth Trust has acquired a second home. Cherished authors including George Eliot don’t even have one
#Museums #Culture #JaneAusten #TSEliot #WilliamWordsworth #VirginiaWoolf #VSNaipaul #Books #TheNationalTrust #Art #UKnews #TheGuardian #Editorial
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The Guardian view on writers’ houses: a museum of one’s own | Editorial
By EditorialThe Wordsworth Trust has acquired a second home. Cherished authors including George Eliot don’t even have one
#Museums #Culture #JaneAusten #TSEliot #WilliamWordsworth #VirginiaWoolf #VSNaipaul #Books #TheNationalTrust #Art #UKnews #TheGuardian #Editorial
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The Guardian view on writers’ houses: a museum of one’s own | Editorial
By EditorialThe Wordsworth Trust has acquired a second home. Cherished authors including George Eliot don’t even have one
#Museums #Culture #JaneAusten #TSEliot #WilliamWordsworth #VirginiaWoolf #VSNaipaul #Books #TheNationalTrust #Art #UKnews #TheGuardian #Editorial
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The Guardian view on writers’ houses: a museum of one’s own | Editorial
By EditorialThe Wordsworth Trust has acquired a second home. Cherished authors including George Eliot don’t even have one
#Museums #Culture #JaneAusten #TSEliot #WilliamWordsworth #VirginiaWoolf #VSNaipaul #Books #TheNationalTrust #Art #UKnews #TheGuardian #Editorial
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All the [Islamic fundamentalist] rejection of the West is contained within the assumption that there will always exist out there a living, creative civilization, oddly neutral, open to all to appeal to. Rejection, therefore, is not absolute rejection. It is also, for the community as a whole, a way of ceasing to strive intellectually. It is to be parasitic; parasitism is one of the unacknowledged fruits of fundamentalism.
-- V. S. Naipaul (Among the Believers) -
All the [Islamic fundamentalist] rejection of the West is contained within the assumption that there will always exist out there a living, creative civilization, oddly neutral, open to all to appeal to. Rejection, therefore, is not absolute rejection. It is also, for the community as a whole, a way of ceasing to strive intellectually. It is to be parasitic; parasitism is one of the unacknowledged fruits of fundamentalism.
-- V. S. Naipaul (Among the Believers) -
All the [Islamic fundamentalist] rejection of the West is contained within the assumption that there will always exist out there a living, creative civilization, oddly neutral, open to all to appeal to. Rejection, therefore, is not absolute rejection. It is also, for the community as a whole, a way of ceasing to strive intellectually. It is to be parasitic; parasitism is one of the unacknowledged fruits of fundamentalism.
-- V. S. Naipaul (Among the Believers) -
All the [Islamic fundamentalist] rejection of the West is contained within the assumption that there will always exist out there a living, creative civilization, oddly neutral, open to all to appeal to. Rejection, therefore, is not absolute rejection. It is also, for the community as a whole, a way of ceasing to strive intellectually. It is to be parasitic; parasitism is one of the unacknowledged fruits of fundamentalism.
-- V. S. Naipaul (Among the Believers) -
All the [Islamic fundamentalist] rejection of the West is contained within the assumption that there will always exist out there a living, creative civilization, oddly neutral, open to all to appeal to. Rejection, therefore, is not absolute rejection. It is also, for the community as a whole, a way of ceasing to strive intellectually. It is to be parasitic; parasitism is one of the unacknowledged fruits of fundamentalism.
-- V. S. Naipaul (Among the Believers) -
Llyfr nesa o’r pentwr, enillydd y Wobr Booker yn 1971, ac un gan awdur dw i erioed wedi’i ddarllen o’r blaen, #VSNaipaul
#DarllenNawr
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/53495321-5210-452c-8e36-4418c31be0c1 -
Llyfr nesa o’r pentwr, enillydd y Wobr Booker yn 1971, ac un gan awdur dw i erioed wedi’i ddarllen o’r blaen, #VSNaipaul
#DarllenNawr
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/53495321-5210-452c-8e36-4418c31be0c1 -
𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜’𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮: 𝗔 𝗪𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗖𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻" 𝗯𝘆 𝗩. 𝗦. 𝗡𝗮𝗶𝗽𝗮𝘂𝗹 -
Another too long on the TBR, but Naipaul is nothing if not absorbing!
#books #bookreviews #bookworm #readreadread #tbr #tbrpile #tbrlist #quotes #reading #vsnaipaul #indiaawoundedcivilization #history #indiahistory
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𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜’𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮: 𝗔 𝗪𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗖𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻" 𝗯𝘆 𝗩. 𝗦. 𝗡𝗮𝗶𝗽𝗮𝘂𝗹 -
Another too long on the TBR, but Naipaul is nothing if not absorbing!
#books #bookreviews #bookworm #readreadread #tbr #tbrpile #tbrlist #quotes #reading #vsnaipaul #indiaawoundedcivilization #history #indiahistory
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𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜’𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮: 𝗔 𝗪𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗖𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻" 𝗯𝘆 𝗩. 𝗦. 𝗡𝗮𝗶𝗽𝗮𝘂𝗹 -
Another too long on the TBR, but Naipaul is nothing if not absorbing!
#books #bookreviews #bookworm #readreadread #tbr #tbrpile #tbrlist #quotes #reading #vsnaipaul #indiaawoundedcivilization #history #indiahistory
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𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜’𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮: 𝗔 𝗪𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗖𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻" 𝗯𝘆 𝗩. 𝗦. 𝗡𝗮𝗶𝗽𝗮𝘂𝗹 -
Another too long on the TBR, but Naipaul is nothing if not absorbing!
#books #bookreviews #bookworm #readreadread #tbr #tbrpile #tbrlist #quotes #reading #vsnaipaul #indiaawoundedcivilization #history #indiahistory
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𝗧𝗕𝗥 𝗣𝗶𝗹𝗲: 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀 -
It's Spiritual Literacy Month! And some other titles I haven't gotten to this year. . .
#books #literature #bookreviews #bookworm #tbrpile #tbrlist #dierdrekessler #paultillich #thecouragetobe #jackkornfield #buddhaslittleinstructionbook #rosamundstonezander #theartofpossibility #hermannhesse #trees #daytripper #fabiomoon #gabrielba #vsnaipaul #indiaawoundedcivilization #gilasher #epistemicfriction
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𝗧𝗕𝗥 𝗣𝗶𝗹𝗲: 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀 -
It's Spiritual Literacy Month! And some other titles I haven't gotten to this year. . .
#books #literature #bookreviews #bookworm #tbrpile #tbrlist #dierdrekessler #paultillich #thecouragetobe #jackkornfield #buddhaslittleinstructionbook #rosamundstonezander #theartofpossibility #hermannhesse #trees #daytripper #fabiomoon #gabrielba #vsnaipaul #indiaawoundedcivilization #gilasher #epistemicfriction
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𝗧𝗕𝗥 𝗣𝗶𝗹𝗲: 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀 -
It's Spiritual Literacy Month! And some other titles I haven't gotten to this year. . .
#books #literature #bookreviews #bookworm #tbrpile #tbrlist #dierdrekessler #paultillich #thecouragetobe #jackkornfield #buddhaslittleinstructionbook #rosamundstonezander #theartofpossibility #hermannhesse #trees #daytripper #fabiomoon #gabrielba #vsnaipaul #indiaawoundedcivilization #gilasher #epistemicfriction
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𝗧𝗕𝗥 𝗣𝗶𝗹𝗲: 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀 -
It's Spiritual Literacy Month! And some other titles I haven't gotten to this year. . .
#books #literature #bookreviews #bookworm #tbrpile #tbrlist #dierdrekessler #paultillich #thecouragetobe #jackkornfield #buddhaslittleinstructionbook #rosamundstonezander #theartofpossibility #hermannhesse #trees #daytripper #fabiomoon #gabrielba #vsnaipaul #indiaawoundedcivilization #gilasher #epistemicfriction
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I'd never read any V.S. Naipaul, so I decided to give what is supposed to be his most important work a try.
I didn't love it, even though the writing conveyed the sights, sounds, and smells of twentieth century colonial Trinidad so effectively. I also got more of a feel for the life of the Indian diaspora in the British empire, even though I found the narrative of one member of that diaspora's search for a place of his own amidst career and family troubles less absorbing than I had hoped.
When I had finished, I put "A House for Mr Biswas" aside and felt puzzled. Why does this book enjoy such a stellar reputation?
#Books #VSNaipaul #AHouseForMrBiswas
#LiteratureInEnglish #Trinidad -
I'd never read any V.S. Naipaul, so I decided to give what is supposed to be his most important work a try.
I didn't love it, even though the writing conveyed the sights, sounds, and smells of twentieth century colonial Trinidad so effectively. I also got more of a feel for the life of the Indian diaspora in the British empire, even though I found the narrative of one member of that diaspora's search for a place of his own amidst career and family troubles less absorbing than I had hoped.
When I had finished, I put "A House for Mr Biswas" aside and felt puzzled. Why does this book enjoy such a stellar reputation?
#Books #VSNaipaul #AHouseForMrBiswas
#LiteratureInEnglish #Trinidad -
I'd never read any V.S. Naipaul, so I decided to give what is supposed to be his most important work a try.
I didn't love it, even though the writing conveyed the sights, sounds, and smells of twentieth century colonial Trinidad so effectively. I also got more of a feel for the life of the Indian diaspora in the British empire, even though I found the narrative of one member of that diaspora's search for a place of his own amidst career and family troubles less absorbing than I had hoped.
When I had finished, I put "A House for Mr Biswas" aside and felt puzzled. Why does this book enjoy such a stellar reputation?
#Books #VSNaipaul #AHouseForMrBiswas
#LiteratureInEnglish #Trinidad -
I'd never read any V.S. Naipaul, so I decided to give what is supposed to be his most important work a try.
I didn't love it, even though the writing conveyed the sights, sounds, and smells of twentieth century colonial Trinidad so effectively. I also got more of a feel for the life of the Indian diaspora in the British empire, even though I found the narrative of one member of that diaspora's search for a place of his own amidst career and family troubles less absorbing than I had hoped.
When I had finished, I put "A House for Mr Biswas" aside and felt puzzled. Why does this book enjoy such a stellar reputation?
#Books #VSNaipaul #AHouseForMrBiswas
#LiteratureInEnglish #Trinidad -
I'd never read any V.S. Naipaul, so I decided to give what is supposed to be his most important work a try.
I didn't love it, even though the writing conveyed the sights, sounds, and smells of twentieth century colonial Trinidad so effectively. I also got more of a feel for the life of the Indian diaspora in the British empire, even though I found the narrative of one member of that diaspora's search for a place of his own amidst career and family troubles less absorbing than I had hoped.
When I had finished, I put "A House for Mr Biswas" aside and felt puzzled. Why does this book enjoy such a stellar reputation?
#Books #VSNaipaul #AHouseForMrBiswas
#LiteratureInEnglish #Trinidad -
GRANTA: In Conversation
Pico Iyer & Caryl Phillips‘The immigrant’s dream – that he or she can make a better life for the children – becomes a kind of tragedy when it comes true.’
Pico Iyer and Caryl Phillips discuss migration, V. S. Naipaul and the meaning of home.
#GRANTA #PicoIyer #CarylPhillips #Literature #Poetry #Art #BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #English #VSNaipaul #Humanities #Immigrants #Magazines #Books
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GRANTA: In Conversation
Pico Iyer & Caryl Phillips‘The immigrant’s dream – that he or she can make a better life for the children – becomes a kind of tragedy when it comes true.’
Pico Iyer and Caryl Phillips discuss migration, V. S. Naipaul and the meaning of home.
#GRANTA #PicoIyer #CarylPhillips #Literature #Poetry #Art #BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #English #VSNaipaul #Humanities #Immigrants #Magazines #Books
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GRANTA: In Conversation
Pico Iyer & Caryl Phillips‘The immigrant’s dream – that he or she can make a better life for the children – becomes a kind of tragedy when it comes true.’
Pico Iyer and Caryl Phillips discuss migration, V. S. Naipaul and the meaning of home.
#GRANTA #PicoIyer #CarylPhillips #Literature #Poetry #Art #BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #English #VSNaipaul #Humanities #Immigrants #Magazines #Books
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GRANTA: In Conversation
Pico Iyer & Caryl Phillips‘The immigrant’s dream – that he or she can make a better life for the children – becomes a kind of tragedy when it comes true.’
Pico Iyer and Caryl Phillips discuss migration, V. S. Naipaul and the meaning of home.
#GRANTA #PicoIyer #CarylPhillips #Literature #Poetry #Art #BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #English #VSNaipaul #Humanities #Immigrants #Magazines #Books
