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VS Naipaul in Conversation With Geordie Greig
VS Naipaul in Conversation With Geordie Greig
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80 minutes
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Jun 12, 2014
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Nobel laureate and giant of Western letters, Trinidad-born V. S. Naipaul has excelled in both fiction and non-fiction. His latest book The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief is a travelogue in which Naipaul sets out to discover how far the old Africa's belief in magic has been subverted by the outside world. "I had expected that over the great size of Africa the practices of magic would significantly vary. But they didn’t. The diviners everywhere wanted to ‘throw the bones’ to read the future and the idea of ‘energy’ remained a constant, to be tapped into by the ritual sacrifice of body parts...To witness this, to be given some idea of its power, was to be taken far back to the beginning of things. To reach that beginning was the purpose of my book."
In this event from May 2011, V.S. Naipaul talked to Evening Standard editor Geordie Greig. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
In this event from May 2011, V.S. Naipaul talked to Evening Standard editor Geordie Greig. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Released:
Jun 12, 2014
Format:
Podcast episode
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