| Titre : | Beyond belief : Islamic excursions among the converted peoples / | | Type de document : | texte imprimé | | Auteurs : | V. S. Naipaul | | Mention d'édition : | 1st Vintage International ed. | | Editeur : | Vintage books | | Année de publication : | 19991998 | | Importance : | 408 p. | | Format : | 21 cm | | ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-0-375-70648-6 | | Note générale : | Originally published: New York : Random House, 1998. | | Mots-clés : | Literature Nobel Prize | | Index. décimale : | 297.095 | | Résumé : | Originally published: New York : Random House, 1998.
Fourteen years after the publication of his landmark travel narrative Among the Believers, V. S. Naipaul returned to the four non-Arab Islamic countries he reported on so vividly at the time of Ayatollah Khomeini's triumph in Iran. Beyond Belief is the result of his five-month journey in 1995 through lands where descendants of Muslim converts live at odds with indigenous traditions.
In extended conversations with a vast number of people--a rare survivor of the martyr brigades of the Iran-Iraq war, a young intellectual training as a Marxist guerilla in Baluchistan, an impoverished elderly couple in Teheran whose dusty Baccarat chandeliers preserve the memory of vanished wealth, and countless others--V. S. Naipaul deliberately effaces himself to let the voices of his subjects come through. Yet the result is a collection of stories that has the author's unmistakable stamp. With its incisive observation and brilliant cultural analysis, Beyond Belief is a startling and revelatory addition to the Naipaul canon. |
Beyond belief : Islamic excursions among the converted peoples / [texte imprimé] / V. S. Naipaul . - 1st Vintage International ed. . - [S.l.] : Vintage books, 19991998 . - 408 p. ; 21 cm. ISBN : 978-0-375-70648-6 Originally published: New York : Random House, 1998. | Mots-clés : | Literature Nobel Prize | | Index. décimale : | 297.095 | | Résumé : | Originally published: New York : Random House, 1998.
Fourteen years after the publication of his landmark travel narrative Among the Believers, V. S. Naipaul returned to the four non-Arab Islamic countries he reported on so vividly at the time of Ayatollah Khomeini's triumph in Iran. Beyond Belief is the result of his five-month journey in 1995 through lands where descendants of Muslim converts live at odds with indigenous traditions.
In extended conversations with a vast number of people--a rare survivor of the martyr brigades of the Iran-Iraq war, a young intellectual training as a Marxist guerilla in Baluchistan, an impoverished elderly couple in Teheran whose dusty Baccarat chandeliers preserve the memory of vanished wealth, and countless others--V. S. Naipaul deliberately effaces himself to let the voices of his subjects come through. Yet the result is a collection of stories that has the author's unmistakable stamp. With its incisive observation and brilliant cultural analysis, Beyond Belief is a startling and revelatory addition to the Naipaul canon. |
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