Nobel laureates in search of identity & integrity : voices of different cultures / edited by Anders Hallengren.

Contributor(s):

Hallengren, Anders, 1950-

Publication details: New Jersey : World Scientific, 2004.Description: x, 266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9812560386
9789812560384
9812560742
9789812560742

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

001.4/4/0922 22

LOC classification:

AS911.N9 N5854 2004

Online resources:

Contents:

Two worlds / V.S. Naipaul -- The enigma of arrival / V.S. Naipaul -- Writing and being / Nadine Gordimer -- Nadine Gordimer and the South African experience / Per Wastberg -- A single, homeless, circling satellite -- Derek Walcott / Joran Mjoberg -- The Antilles : fragments of epic memory / Derek Walcott -- Naguib Mahfouz -- the son of two civilizations / Anders Hallengren -- Autobiography / Patrick White -- Patrick White -- existential explorer / Karin Hansson -- A case of identity : Ernest Hemingway / Anders Hallengren -- Voice of Sardegna -- Grazia Deledda / Anders Hallengren -- Autobiography / Amartya Sen -- Tagore and his India / Amartya Sen -- Nelson Mandela and the rainbow of culture / Anders Hallengren.

Summary: "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."--Jacket.

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A collection of essays, biographies, and Nobel lectures, by and about ten Nobel laureates: V.S. Naipaul, Nadine Gordimer, Derek Walcott, Naguib Mahfouz, Patrick White, Ernest Hemingway, Grazia Deledda, Amartya Sen, Rabindranath Tagore, Nelson Mandela.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-262).

"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."--Jacket.

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