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timeless ways :
英国作家V.S.奈保尔(Vidiadhar.Surajprasad.Naipaul)的世间之路(a way to the world)的创作
V. S. Naipaul has 22 books to his credit, many of them displaying the coolest literary eye and the most lucid prose we have. His 11th novel, "A Way in the World," is a distinguished book even by Naipaulian standards, a bewitching piece of work by a mind at the peak of its abilities. The book can only loosely be termed a "novel" and is well outside the limits of what one expects from a traditional work of fiction. The narrative is made from nine linked and complementary narratives -- some personal, some historical, some traditionally novelistic. Though fewer than 400 pages long, "A Way in the World" is epic in scope: Columbus, Sir Walter Raleigh, Simon Bolivar and his fellow Venezuelan revolutionary Francisco Miranda all appear in the book, though in ways one could hardly have predicted. At its heart, this novel is a probing meditation on the relationships am