
Nobel Laureates In Search Of Identity And Integrity: Voices Of Different Cultures
Voices of Different Cultures
- 280 pages
- English
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Nobel Laureates In Search Of Identity And Integrity: Voices Of Different Cultures
Voices of Different Cultures
About this book
In this collection of essays, biographies and Nobel lectures, ten Nobel Laureates from five continents give various and startling perspectives on current questions about modernity and tradition, unity and diversity, integration, identity, integrity, gender and sexual roles in a multicultural world of change. It is also a book on self-confidence and presents different ways to self-knowledge and cultural individuality. Published in print for the first time, these studies and penetrating observations on topical issues, written by leading authors and intellectuals from many distant countries, make up one of the most intriguing and engaging avowals of our time.The Nobel Laureates are:Sir V S Naipaul (United Kingdom, born in Trinidad)Nadine Gordimer (South Africa)Derek Walcott (St Lucia)Naguib Mahfouz (Egypt)Patrick White (Australia)Ernest Hemingway (USA)Grazia Deledda (Sardinia, Italy)Amartya Sen (United Kingdom and the USA, born in India)Rabindranath Tagore (India)Nelson Mandela (South Africa)
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Introduction
- V. S. Naipaul Two Worlds
- V. S. Naipaul The Enigma of Arrival
- Nadine Gordimer Writing and Being
- Per Wastberg Nadine Gordimer and the South African Experience
- Joran Mjoberg A Single, Homeless, Circling Satellite โ Derek Walcott
- Derek Walcott The Antilles: Fragments of Epic Memory
- Anders Hallengren Naguib Mahfouz โ The Son of Two Civilizations
- Patrick White Autobiography
- Karin Hansson Patrick White โ Existential Explorer
- Anders Hallengren A Case of Identity: Ernest Hemingway
- Anders Hallengren Voice of Sardegna โ Grazia Deledda
- Amartya Sen โ Autobiography
- Amartya Sen Tagore and His India
- Anders Hallengren Nelson Mandela and the Rainbow of Culture
- Bibliography
- Online Sources
- The Authors