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For the 'serious traveller', person who is fully involved with the planet, there can be no view. Our author's purpose, then, 'is not literary criticism or biography', but only to lay out the writing and ways of experiencing to which he was exposed. So here's colonial Trinidad (the early Derek Walcott and Naipaul's own dad); the culture of institution (Flaubert and the traditional world); Britain, where with the aid of friends the copy writer looks for to make his way; and, inevitably for a colonial Indian, there may be India, to be approached through the residue of Indian culture and the spread thoughts of nineteenth-century immigrants, leading to a special understanding of Mahatma Gandhi. Part meditation, part remembrance, A Writer's People is a privileged insight, filled with gentleness, humour and sense, into the mind of one of the greatest freelance writers. 'Essential reading ...it includes the insights and observations -- on books, history and cultural sensibility -- of a genuine and truly global thinker' Nighttime Standard 'The best writer now surviving in Britain. His courage in experiencing and telling the truth represents a level of high seriousness that has basically vanished' Weekend Times 'Naipaul has a razor-sharp visual sense ...And then there may be his chiselled prose, graceful and cost-effective: who, now living, writes as well as he?' Financial Times
