WRITER’S PEOPLE, A(ISBN=) 英文原版

V. S. Naipaul has always faced the challenges of “fitting one
civilization to another.” In A Writer’s People, he takes us
into this process of creative and intellectual assimilation, which
has shaped both his writing and his life.
         Naipaul discusses
the writers to whom he was exposed early on—Derek Walcott, Gustave
Flaubert, and his father, among them—and his first encounters with
literary culture. He illuminates the ways in which the writings of
Gandhi, Nehru, and other Indian writers both reveal and conceal the
authors themselves and their nation. And he brings the same
scrutiny to bear on his own life: his early years in Trinidad; the
empty spaces in his family history; his ever-evolving reactions to
the more complicated India he would encounter for the first time at
age thirty.

ONE The Worm in theBud
TWO An English Way ofLooking
THREE Looking and Not Seeing：The lndian Way
FOUR Disearate Ways
FIVE India Again．”The Mahatma andAfier