The Masque of Africa
V.S. Naipaul
The Masque of Africa
V.S. Naipaul
- Wydawnictwo: Picador
- Rok wydania: 2025
- ISBN: 9781035061730
- Ilość stron: 326
- Format: 13.0x19.0cm
- Oprawa: Miękka
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Opis: The Masque of Africa - V.S. Naipaul
Moving beyond travelogue, V. S. Naipaul's The Masque of Africa considers the effects of belief (in indigenous animisms, the foreign religions of Christianity and Islam, the cults of leaders and mythical history) upon the progress of African civilization.
Beginning in Uganda, at the centre of the continent, Naipaul’s journey takes in Ghana and Nigeria, the Ivory Coast and Gabon, and ends, as the country does, in South Africa.
Focusing upon the theme of belief – though sometimes the political or economical realities are so overwhelming that they have to be taken into account – Naipaul examines the fragile but enduring quality of the old world of magic. To witness the ubiquity of such ancient ritual, 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 this book.
Szczegóły: The Masque of Africa - V.S. Naipaul
Tytuł: The Masque of Africa
Autor: V.S. Naipaul
Wydawnictwo: Picador
ISBN: 9781035061730
Języki: angielski
Rok wydania: 2025
Ilość stron: 326
Format: 13.0x19.0cm
Oprawa: Miękka
Waga: 0.235 kg