V. S. Naipaul: Guerrillas
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- Kategoria: kaunokirjallisuus, alakategoria: kaunokirjalliset sekasisältöiset teokset
- Materiaali: Isokokoinen pokkari
- Kustantaja: Pan Macmillan
- Kieli: englanti
- ISBN: 9780330522915
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Set on a troubled Caribbean island -- where Asians, Africans, Americans and former British colonials co-exist in a state of suppressed hysteria -- Guerrillas is a novel of colonialism and revolution. A white man arrives with his mistress, an Englishwoman influenced by fantasies of native power and sexuality, unaware of the consequences of her actions. Together with a leader of the 'revolution', they act out a gripping drama of death, sexual violence and spiritual impotence. Guerrillas depicts a convulsion in public life, and ends in private violence. The novel comes with extraordinary force from the centre of a profound moral awareness of the world's plight. 'Impeccable …Guerrillas seems to me Naipaul's Heart of Darkness: a brilliant artist's anatomy of emptiness, and of despair' Observer