And it is a stern gaze, not given to sentiments or available narratives, always scrutinizing, and at times wicked (which may have caused outrage when this book came out). Read more . One of my chief complaints with the book as I read was that Naipaul kept himself aloof, that so much of the book was abstract histori. Observation was a key to Naipaul's oeuvre. Helpful. I did not want India to sink [out of my memory]; the mere thought was painful.”, “It is well that Indians are unable to look at their country directly, for the distress they would see would drive them mad. Banned in India and still banned over fifty years later. this turn of phrase here. I did not want India to sink; the mere thought was painful.”, “Well, India is a country of nonsense. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 August 2011. Once back to this central area, I went southeast, and went through the circle here. He's self-aware enough to find the humor in his constant disgust/snobbery/irritation, and he's good at choosing just the right details to convey the sense of a place. India was land of myths, an area of darkness closing up behind him as he travelled. To know Indians was to take a delight in people as people; every encounter was an adventure. V. S Naipaul has always been a controversial figure. It existed in a world which, with all its ups and downs, remained harmoniously ordered and could be taken for granted. An Area of Darkness is V. S. Naipaul's semi-autobiographical account - at once painful and hilarious, but always thoughtful and considered - of his first visit to India, the land of his forebears. An Area of Darkness also abounds with Naipaul’s strikingly original responses to India’s paralyzing caste system, its apparently serene acceptance of poverty and squalor, and the conflict between its desire for self-determination and its nostalgia for the British raj. It is a travelogue detailing Naipaul's trip through India in the early sixties. Error rating book. In his native Trinidad Naipaul had always somehow been of India without being Indian. Naipaul sought to explore his roots, and warns anyone undertaking such a venture that roots, by their nature, grow in a particular environment. But one is moved to accept it. in the end when he visits his grandfather's village, Naipaul sounds very like the Indian he has been loathing throughout the book. He goes purely by gut and what he produces is an astoundingly negative portrait. I look forward to reading the next two books. 'An Area of Darkness' is a masterpiece of travel writing and personal memoir. An Area of Darkness is V. S. Naipaul’s semi-autobiographical account – at once painful and hilarious, but always thoughtful and considered – of his first visit to India, the land of his forebears. And that is most evident in The Area of Darkness. Retrouvez An Area of Darkness et des millions de livres en stock sur Amazon.fr. Naipaul offers a unique perspective of worlds beyond worlds. Naipaul's father, Seepersad, was an English-language journalist. Report abuse. Set in 1978, you’ll play as Dr Anne Evans on her journey from New York to the iconic Sentinel Islands; one of the few remaining places in the world untouched by modern civilization; a true area of darkness. Widely criticized for its negativity, this book actually shines in darkness. I did not want India to sink [out of my memory]; the mere thought was painful.”, “It is well that Indians are unable to look at their country directly, for the distress they would see would drive them mad. After 12 years in London, and possibly in an attempt to regain some sense of his own roots, he decided to take a sabbatical year in India in 1962. He seems to possess an uncanny ability to dive deep into the collective impulses of a complex society, and emerge with insights that speak directly, forcefully. Website⎮Twitter⎮Facebook⎮Goodreads ... the first step in making the supernatural believable is to research the lore, urban legends and ghost stories of an area. at Amazon.com. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Nowhere were people so heightened, rounded and individualistic; nowhere did they offer themselves so fully and with such assurance. It was worth it. Achetez neuf ou d'occasion 5.0 out of 5 stars still vivid after 50 years. He was being metaphorical. This is an utterly devastating and honest look at India, and the Indian psyche/Weltanschauung, told through the narrative device of the writer, a Trinidad-Indian, returning to the country of his forefathers. Discover lots of new and upcoming nonfiction reads this season This is an extraordinary dissection of India, and Indian society. Although it dates back as far as the 1960s, it is still an enormously valuable book that serves as a model for anything and everything travel-related since. V.S. The day was warm, but I had a cool bottle of water and some cherries, cold and hard from the cooler. If one can imagine the difficulties Naipaul suffers now in a period in which the principle of 'free speech' is being eroded by nice white people to 'you can say what you like as long as we agree with it', it speaks buckets for this book that he experienced the 'censorship of the offended' the very moment it appeared. He's self-aware enough to find the humor in his constant disgust/snobbery/irritation, and he's good at choosing just the right details to convey the sense of a place. I’d read Naipaul's India Trilogy when I was in my late teens and at that young age, it did fill me up with profound hatred for the writer who in my opinion was spewing venom against my beloved country. The Eyes of Darkness. He was being metaphorical. As an Indian raised in Trinidad and educated in the UK, he planned a tour of his "homeland" that gives us the impressions of an outsider often invisible as an outsider to the people among whom he moves. Buy India: An Area Of Darkness, A Wounded Civilization & A Million Mutinies Now (Picador Classic) Main Market by Naipaul, Sir V. S. (ISBN: 9781529031133) from Amazon's Book Store. The difficulty arises from the undeniable truth in what Mr Naipaul writes. A classic of modern travel writing, An Area of Darkness is Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul’s profound reckoning with his ancestral homeland and an extraordinarily perceptive chronicle … We’d love your help. He was twenty-nine years old; he stayed for a year. An Area of Darkness Paperback – Jun 20 2002. by V. S. Naipaul (Author) 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings. After reading so much of his later stuff, it's a relief to turn to his earlier work, when he was funnier, more enthusiastic and more expansive. From the moment of his inauspicious arrival he experienced a cultural estrangement from the subcontinent. One of my chief complaints with the book as I read was that Naipaul kept himself aloof, that so much of the book was abstract historical essay instead of real stories of his travels. M. K. Gandhi”. My urban fantasy books are set in real cities, most of which have a long, reputedly haunted past. An Area of Darkness also abounds with Naipaul’s strikingly original responses to India’s paralyzing caste system, its apparently serene acceptance of poverty and squalor, and the conflict between its desire for self-determination and its nostalgia for the British raj. Previous page. Follow the story of Dr. Anne Evans on her journey from 1978 New York to the timeless Sentinel Islands, one of the few places in the world yet to be touched by modern civilization - an area of darkness. In the years since he mellowed out, and also India's socio-economic situation changed considerably. Widely criticized for its negativity, this book actua, If you are an Indian, this book is one of the most difficult things you can read. There is anger, there is resentment, stupefaction, disbelief, disgust, yet there is awe. Add both to Cart . It was the first book in the trilogy which includes India: A Wounded Civilization and India: A Million Mutinies Now. The book is realistic but sympathetic. he has been very honest to say the least. It is better to retreat into fantasy and fatalism, to trust to the stars in which the fortunes of all are written”, The (Conde Nast) 86 Greatest Travel Books of All Time, Curated Reads: Nonfiction Books to Intrigue and Inspire. A combination of misanthropy; sweeping observations about an entire people based on limited and selective exposure and negligible background study; a warped complexity and narrow-mindedness; unadulterated Islamophobia; and, a propensity at times to dully describe dull things in long, dull passages have to my mind characterized non-fiction produced in the later stages of his career. When I heard the news of Naipaul’s demise, I decided to reread his India Trilogy as a tribute to the great writer. An area of darkness by V. S. Naipaul, 1992, Vintage Books edition, in English - Vintage Books ed. He is unsparingly critical in his assessment. It is better to retreat into fantasy and fatalism, to trust to the stars in which the fortunes of all are written”, “The medieval mind, which saw only continuity, seemed so unassailable. A travelogue, the book takes the readers on a journey across India as Naipaul himself encounters various cross-sections of society. 13 people found this helpful. The Area of Darkness, when it was publish. Interestingly, it was banned on the subcontinent for a 'negative portrayal of India and its people', earning the special distinction of a bad book review from a sovereign nation. he explains the modern Indian psyche very well! See all 21 formats and editions Hide other formats and editions. There was a chunk in the middle of the book where Naipaul stayed at a particular hotel and got to know the people there, which was really intriguing, but otherwise I was dead bored. The result may be the most elegant and passionate book ever written about the subcontinent. You. Whether it is for his rude behaviour towards fellow writers at conferences or his show of support for India's Hindutva ring, Bharatiya Janata Party or his admission in his autobiography that his callousness killed his wife, this Trinidadian author has always been some sort of an enfant terrible of English literature. Welcome back. I was surprised when Naipaul visited his ancestral village and found out they were indeed Brahmin, as I had been sure that his grandparents had switched caste somewhere on their way to Trinidad. Naipaul's first trip to India -- he's appalled by the filth, poverty, etc. Overall the ending was very moving and very powerful. This is a book that heartily annoyed me as I read it, but the last 60 pages changed my tune. Find books like An Area of Darkness from the world’s largest community of readers. He was twenty-nine years old; he stayed for a year. As an Indian raised in Trinidad and educated in the UK, he planned a tour of his "homeland" that gives us the impressions of an outsider often invisible as an outsider to the people among whom he moves. Retrouvez An Area Of Darkness et des millions de livres en stock sur Amazon.fr. I do not recall how I came to own An Area of Darkness by V.S. Refresh and try again. Second time round, and good 10 years after I first read it An Area of Darkness surprised me more than I expected. He is known for the wistfully comic early novels of Trinidad, the bleaker novels of a wider world remade by the passage of peoples, and the vigilant chronicles of his life and travels, all written in characteristic, widely admired, prose. His scatological horror conception of India, though it's pretty arresting and incisive re: postcolonial trauma and personal self-loathing and horror, also made this a difficult book to get through, though I think worth it in the end. Helpful. I would never want to read this book again, nor would I recommend it to others unless they knew what they were getting into--but the endless historical essays on caste and English colonialization did eventually end, and did lead into a really interesting place for Naipaul. It was one step from the Kashmiri devotional songs to the commercial jingles of Radio Ceylon; it was one step from the roses of Kashmir to a potful of plasticdaisies.”, “Out of all its squalor and human decay, its eruptions of butchery, India produced so many people of grace and beauty, ruled by elaborate courtesy. We’d love your help. While it was enclosed, this made it secure. I would never want to read this book again, nor would I recommend it to others unless they knew what they were getting into--but the endless historical essays on caste and English colonialization did eventually end, and did lead into a really interesting place for Naipaul. -- quite funny in parts, like when he's trying not to overpay Kashmiri tour guides. In it, he discusses the effect of the British Empire on the Indian subcontinent. An Area of Darkness is V. S. Naipaul's semi-autobiographical account - at once painful and hilarious, but always thoughtful and considered - of his first visit to India, the land of his forebears. Be the first to ask a question about An Area of Darkness. Naipaul was born and raised in Trinidad, to which his grandfathers had emigrated from India as indentured servants. Naipaul died in late summer this year and I bought these books on the day of his demise but I could not start the trilogy till November, but finally have been able to complete it now. It was the first of Naipaul's acclaimed Indian trilogy that includes India: A Wounded Civilization (1977) and India: A Million Mutinies Now (1980). It is ultimately a way of looking. Naipaul 1,892 ratings, 3.67 average rating, 134 reviews An Area of Darkness Quotes Showing 1-5 of 5 “Out of its squalor and human decay, its eruptions of butchery, India produced so many people of grace and beauty, ruled by elaborate courtesy. The result may be the most elegant and passionate book ever written about the subcontinent. Yet in our artificially… Naipaul's first trip to India -- he's appalled by the filth, poverty, etc. The difficulty arises from the undeniable truth in what Mr Naipaul writes. An Area of Darkness also abounds with Naipaul’s strikingly original responses to India’s paralyzing caste system, its apparently serene acceptance of poverty and squalor, and the conflict between its desire for self-determination and its nostalgia for the British raj. This is the first book by Naipaul that has helped me understand why people disliked him so much. In 1964 V. S. Naipaul published An Area of Darkness, his semi-autobiographical account of a year in India. I kept wanting to get outside of VSN's head, to have some kind of relief, objectivity, that was never really forthcoming, that maybe by the nature of a book like this can't be forthcoming? V.S. He depicts India as a grotesque dystopia, doomed by its fatalism to eternal misery. Interviews with... To see what your friends thought of this book. lots of perfectly formed sentences in between.all of which are on display in this book that to me seems to be more about naipaul than about india. From the moment of his inauspicious arrival he experienced a cultural estrangement from the subcontinent. This book is beautiful but also makes me really personally sad for VS Naipaul? Naipaul and Nirad Chaudhary were the two literary villains I grew up with, though my impression of Nirad Chaudhary being utterly devoid of depth, remained the same but as I grew older, I started to admire the faculty of observation Naipaul was gifted with and also by his fearlessness to write exactly what he observed. Although it dates back as far as the 1960s, it is still an enormously valuable book that serves as a model for anything and everything travel-related since. And that is exactly what he masterfully succeeds at doing. They tell us that the Cloud of Darkness had appeared 1000 years ago, and that they had stopped it, but at a great cost. The episode at the end, whe. A starry night is one of nature's most magical wonders. But one is moved to accept it. A year spent in India in the early 60's, by Naipaul - born in Trinidad to parents of Indian heritage - his grandfather emigrated to Trinidad. He was a genius, wasn't he? Helpful. In the recent Dhaka lit fest, he mentioned that the three books on India are not a journey into the development of a nation but into the development of a writer. The novel chronicles the Nobel laureate’s first encounter with India. Area of Darkness: Sentinel is a psychological thriller/adventure game that offers you a uniquely immersive cinematic VR experience like no other. It is uncomfortable: that someone (an outsider?) There are no discussion topics on this book yet. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. It is an emotional travelogue written during his first visit to India in 1964. For all his genius, he also remains a vilified figure in India and not without reason. It's an insufferably arrogant account of a traveler through India who does not speak the language and has no meaningful understanding of its history. It is highly recommended to those who are interested in India, and absolutely essential for those who, V. S Naipaul has always been a controversial figure. An Area of Darkness is a book written by V. S. Naipaul in 1964. In the preface to the edition I read (from 2010) he lets his readers know that his bad mood during at least the first part of the book was due to a creative crisis he was going through at the time – this might be true, or it might be not; but in any case, it reminds us that, even though. To venture among a people, to talk to them, to find out everyday drama, to unearth "suppressed histories" (a term used by the Nobel committee), and to ultimately look... from a certain vantage point that kept changing over the years. The topics covered in the book range from the de-industrialization of Indian manufacturing, the myth of the ‘English’ gift, the rift built by the British in India-Pakistan partition debates, and so on. Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users. Noté /5. Naipaul to the lake with me. Start by marking “An Area of Darkness” as Want to Read: Error rating book. We can see in retrospect that this judgement was a bit hasty. When I started reading this book, it initially gave me an impression of a typical insight of a foreigner into India. Welcome back. All of the earlier material on caste and colonization had been building up to this point: the point when he visits his grandfather's village and, though charmed at first, ultimately cannot connect with his relations there for the same reasons that he can't connect with the rest of India. For all his genius, he also remains a vilified figure in India and not without reason. V. S Naipaul‘s An area of darkness – A discovery of India is the first of his acclaimed Indian trilogy. To know Indians was to take a delight in people as people; every encounter was an adventure. To venture among a people, to talk to them, to find out everyday drama, to unearth "suppressed histories" (a term used by the Nobel committee), and to ultimately look... from a certain vantage point that kept changing over the years. The first book in V. S. Naipaul's acclaimed Indian trilogy - with a preface by the author. The Area of Darkness, when it was published in 1964, created an uproar among Indians and was intensely criticised for its unkind, deriding and supercilious view of India. V.S. 'An Area of Darkness' is a masterpiece of travel writing and personal memoir. Naipaul's literature, much like his personality demonstrates a certain extremism -where there are few or no grey areas. These books were written based on his experiences from his first, third and fourth journeys to India respectively. His scatological horror conception of India, though it's pretty arresting and incisive re: postcolonial trauma and personal self-loathing and horror, also made this a difficult book to get through, though I think worth it in the end. Refresh and try again. It's not a genre I normally read, but I did own it, and having it I decided to give it a try. An Era of Darkness is an extended narrative drawn from Tharoor’s Oxford speech few years ago. Written during the demoralizing conflict with China in 1962, this is the first of V S Naipaul's trilogy on India and his second major work of non-fiction. It is uncomfortable: that someone (an outsider?) Naipaul and Nirad Chaudhary were the two literary villains I grew up with, though my impression of Nirad Chaudhary being utterly devoid of depth, remained the same but as I grew older, I started to admire the faculty of observation Naipaul was gifted with and also by his fearlessness to write exac. I read this while I visited India, and read about the Bhagirath only a few days after experiencing it in Delhi. I took V.S. can see that overwhelming reality of circadian Indian existence—and what lies beneath it—and articulate it so well is not easy to accept perhaps. The travel trilogy written by VS Naipaul comprises An Area of Darkness (1964), India: A Wounded Civilisation (1977) and India: A Million Mutinies Now (1990). Nowhere were people so heightened, rounded and individualistic; nowhere did they offer themselves so fully and with such assurance. Producing too much life, it denied the value of life; yet it permitted a unique human development to so many. In the recent Dhaka lit fest, he mentioned that the three books on India are not a journey into the development of a nation but into the development of a writer. An Area of Darkness is V. S. Naipaul's semi-autobiographical account - at once painful and hilarious, but always thoughtful and considered - of his first visit to India, the land of his forebears. This book (first published in 1964) has become somewhat notorious for its narrator’s rather negative attitude towards the country he is writing about. Title: The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Night Author: Paul Bogard Published: 2013 Pages: 312 Rating: **1/2 A deeply panoramic tour of the night, from its brightest spots to the darkest skies we have left. 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