MIDDLE PASSAGE, THE(ISBN=) 英文原版

The coolest literary eye and the most lucid prose we
have.??The New York Times Book Review
Belongs in the
same category of travel writing as Lawrence?s books on Italy,
Greene?s on West Africa and Pritchett?s on Spain.? ?New
Statesman
Naipaul travels with the artist?s eye and ear and his observations
are sharply discerning.? ?Evelyn Waugh
Where earlier travelers enthused or recoiled, Mr. Naipaul explains.
His tone is critical but humane, and he tempers his inevitable
indignation with an admirable sense of comedy.? ?The
Observer
 Dazzling reportorial skills and a sharp historical mind.?
?The New York Times — Review

In 1960 the government of Trinidad invited V. S. Naipaul to
revisit his native country and record his impressions. In this
classic of modern travel writing he has created a deft and
remarkably prescient portrait of Trinidad and four adjacent
Caribbean societies–countries haunted by the legacies of slavery
and colonialism and so thoroughly defined by the norms of Empire
that they can scarcely believe that the Empire is ending.
In The Middle Passage, Naipaul watches a Trinidadian movie
audience greeting Humphrey Bogart’s appearance with cries of “That
is man!” He ventures into a Trinidad slum so insalubrious that the
locals call it the Gaza Strip. He follows a racially charged
election campaign in British Guiana (now Guyana) and marvels at the
Gallic pretension of Martinique society, which maintains the
fiction that its roads are extensions of France’s routes
nationales. And throughout he relates the ghastly episodes of
the region’s colonial past and shows how they continue to inform
its language, politics, and values. The result is a work of
novelistic vividness and dazzling perspicacity that displays
Naipaul at the peak of his powers.

V. S. Naipaul lives in Wiltshire, England.

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Foreword to this Edition
MIDDLE  PASSAGE
TRINIDAD
BRITISH  GUIANA
SURINAM
MARTINIQUE
ON TO JAMAICA
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