Mr Naipaul's Round Trip and Other Essays

Author: T G VaidyanathanPublisher: PenguinYear: 2003Language: EnglishPages: 261ISBN/UPC (if available): 014302955X DescriptionT G Vaidyanathan, TGV to his friends and students alike, taught literature and film criticism, played first-division cricket and thought the world was his subject. This book collects some of his best writings on literature, culture, film and cricket.In his essays on literature and culture, TGV displays his remarkable ability to take an apparently insignificant fact and use it to highlight matters of wider cultural import. From dictionaries to umbrellas to the stainless steel culture sweeping Madras, here is a truly eclectic selection of subjects. Each piece is imbued with TGV’s unique brand of intellectual energy that combines wide-ranging references with a rigorous attention to detail. Memoirs of a Bibliophile, a delightful journey through the word of second-hand bookshops, will find echoes in all book-lovers. Films were for him secret odes to life, and his app