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Il rapporto di Naipaul con la terra, l'India, da cui i suoi antenati partirono un secolo fa per Trinidad è sempre stato molto teso, aspro, oscuro: "Per me l'India è un paese difficile. Le sono al tempo stesso troppo vicino e troppo lontano". Ma proprio questo sentimento di consanguineità e insieme di opposizione sembra avere acuito lo sguardo dello scrittore, conferendogli il dono di una percezione snebbiata di cui molto raramente gli occidentali sono capaci in India. E l'occhio, in questo libro, segue quasi ossessivamente le tracce e i sintomi di una sola realtà: l'antica, non rimarginata ferite che, anche dopo l'indipendenza, sembra condannare l'India a uno stato di cronica inadeguatezza.
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- Pagine: 260
- Data di uscita: 29-10-1997
Recensioni
Naipaul is not a much-liked figure in India. There are good reasons for it. First, nation-states do not like being condemned or harshly judged, and India is no exception. Second, if a writer in his bashing enthusiasm goes on hitting while ignoring some key facts about a particular people and their h Leggi tutto
If you are an Indian with a national pride, I would be surprised if you get through this book with your pride still afloat. Naipaul literally rips through the Indian psyche in an uncompromising and practical manner. Every aspect of India, its education system, its mindset, its administrative setup,
I’m quite okay with what gets termed as ‘India Bashing’ (or, if for that matter, bashing of any other country) as often it is just a veil used by powerful to suppress criticism pointed at them but my one condition is that author should actually feel concerned for the people. That she/he is frustrate Leggi tutto
This is a book about India, but it could be about "oriental fatalism" more generally, which Naipaul never ceased to notice or despise. Naipaul criticizes the psychology of Hinduism from the perspective of someone who is culturally Hindu himself. He engages in his usual curmudgeonly tourism and share Leggi tutto
A fascinating view of India during the Emergency in 1975-1976. Naipaul has a very negative view of India and its obsession with Gandhism. A good quote that sums up his viewpoint is ‘Gandhi swept through India, but he has left it without an ideology. He awakened the Holy land; his mahatmahood returne Leggi tutto
The great G. K. Chesterton once noted that he had an idea for a novel that he was either “too busy or too lazy" to actualize. The plot concerned a yachtsman who through miscalculation lands in England when he believes he’s discovered a new island in the South Pacific. Despite some beautiful prose, I Leggi tutto
Among the three books Naipaul has written on India (Area Of Darkness, A Wounded Civilisation and third, A Million Mutinies Now), this one has to be the most scathing of them all. While the other two are travelogues in nature, A Wounded Civilisation is more of a critique - an analysis. Since the book Leggi tutto
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