Click images to enlarge
Description
INDIA: A WOUNDED CIVILIZATION
by V S Naipaul
Pub : Andre Deutsch, London, 1977.
First edition, first printing.
Hardback in dustjacket.
174 pages.
In 1964 V.S. Naipaul published "An Area of Darkness", his semi-autobiographical account of a year in India. Two visits later, prompted by the Emergency of 1975, he came to write "India: A Wounded Civilization", in which he casts a more analytical eye over Indian attitudes. In this work, he recapitulates and further investigates the feelings that the vast, mysterious and agonised continent has previously aroused in him. What he sees and what he hears - evoked so superbly and vividly in this book - only reinforce in him his conviction that India, wounded by a thousand years of foreign rule, had not yet found an ideology of regeneration
Good+ condition. No inscriptions or annotations. Some foxing to endpapers and page tips. Dustjacket is price-clipped.
