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Miguel Street Author: [UK]VS Naipaul Publisher: Nanhai Publishing Company
Miguel Street Author: [UK]VS Naipaul Publisher: Nanhai Publishing Company
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Introduction · · · · · ·
☆ Life is so desperate, yet everyone lives happily/ Miguel Street and the people on Miguel Street are as ordinary as salt, and as precious as salt!
☆ Nobel Prize winner VS Naipaul's masterpiece, won the Maugham Prize / Miguel Street combines Chekhov's humor with the improvised tunes of Trinidadian residents, establishing Naipaul's status as a humorist and street life writer. ——Nobel Prize Award Speech
Miguel Street is the work of Nobel Prize winner Naipaul that Chinese readers are most familiar with. It is carefully woven from 17 parallel short stories, each of which is relatively independent, but the stories are interrelated and intertwined, forming a structure that interacts with each other in both vertical and horizontal dimensions.
Main content:
Miguel Street is inhabited by a group of small characters with tempers and hopes: "Philosopher" Pope wants to make something that cannot be named; "Artist" Morgan claims that the King of the United States will come to buy his fireworks; "Poet" Blake Wordsworth is writing the greatest poem in the world; "Madman" Manman frequently participates in congressional elections; "Mechanical Genius" Baku is indomitable in transforming imported cars...
About the Author · · · · · ·
VS Naipaul:
A famous British writer. Born in 1932 in an Indian immigrant family on the island of Trinidad, he entered Oxford University in 1950 to study English literature and moved to London after graduation.
He began writing in the 1950s and has written Miguel Street, Mr. Stone and His Knight's Companion, A Free State, A Bend in the River, the Indian Trilogy, and The Masked Drama of Africa. In 2001, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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