With his long and distinguished literary career (some 20
works published non-fiction and
fiction) Trinidad
born Naipaul is becoming
something of an elder statesman
of the literary brigade these
days.
This new work, Literary Occasions, brings together 11
intensely personal meditations on the native of reading, writing and
identity, taking in his something experiences of reading books to his
first writing attempts andconcluding
with the speech he gave in his Nobel lecture.
Naipaul has a super relaxed writing style the kind of
author whose words just fill your head without you realising, all of the
pieces here are witty, and never less than interesting highlight though
world have to be his Treatise on novelist Joseph Conrad.
On growing up and delving into more adultbooks I would always look
out for Picador Books as being
worthwhile and this release is
certainly that, entertaining and,
unusual for a book of essays,
fun to read.
