India
Tras un millón de motines
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Publisher Description
El Premio Nobel de Literatura, V.S. Naipaul, nos sumerge en un apasionado y clarividente diario de viaje por la India, su país natal.
Trazada sin prejuicios ni sentimentalismos, la visión lúcida, tierna y sarcástica de la India que ofrece V. S. Naipaul es una representación viva de una sociedad compleja en la que la modernidad se teje sobre un fondo tradicional.
El enfrentamiento entre musulmanes e hindúes, las transformaciones del papel de la mujer, la supervivencia de los antiguos rituales, la dinámica industrial cinematográfica, la nueva literatura, los cambios en la institución familiar y la permanencia del sistema de castas son aspectos que no escapan a la aguda mirada del Premio Nobel de literatura.
Reseña:
«Por la abundancia de talento, difícilmente puede existir un escritor en la actualidad que supere a V. S. Naipaul.»
The New York Times
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Trinidadian journalist-novelist Naipaul stresses that much has changed since his 1962 trip to India, which yielded his darkly pessimistic book India: A Wounded Civilization. In this kaleidoscopic, layered travelogue, he portrays ``a country of a million little mutinies,'' reeling with ``rage and revolt,'' as percolating ideas of freedom shake loose the old moral ethos rooted in caste and class. Despite what he terms regional, religious and sectarian excesses, Naipaul sees possibilities for regeneration in the new freedoms, yet this skewed essay is fraught with bewilderment and sorrow as he reels off a familiar litany of problems--terrible poverty, shoddy manufactured goods, ugly neo-modern architecture, etc.--and comes to terms with his own past: his ancestors were indentured servants of Indian descent. Most interesting here are the dozens of first-person stories by Indians themselves, ranging from a wealthy young stockbroker to anti-religionists to a publisher of women's magazines. 50,000 first printing; $50,000 ad/promo; author tour.
