Nobel Laureates in Search of Identity and Integrity: Voices of Different CulturesIn this collection of essays, biographies and Nobel lectures, tenNobel Laureates from five continents give various and startlingperspectives on current questions about modernity and tradition, unityand diversity, integration, identity, integrity, gender and sexualroles in a multicultural world of change. It is also a book onself-confidence and presents different ways to self-knowledge andcultural individuality. Published in print for the first time, thesestudies and penetrating observations on topical issues, written byleading authors and intellectuals from many distant countries, make upone of the most intriguing and engaging avowals of our time. |
Contents
V S Naipaul Two Worlds | 3 |
V S Naipaul The Enigma of Arrival | 17 |
Nadine Gordimer Writing and Being | 21 |
Per Wastberg Nadine Gordimer and the South African Experience | 33 |
Joran Mjoberg A Single Homeless Circling Satellite Derek Walcott | 47 |
Fragments of Epic Memory | 59 |
Anders Hallengren Naguib Mahfouz The Son of Two Civilizations | 77 |
Patrick White Autobiography | 95 |
Ernest Hemingway | 117 |
Anders Hallengren Voice of Sardegna Grazia Deledda | 131 |
Amartya Sen Autobiography | 151 |
Amartya Sen Tagore and His India | 177 |
Anders Hallengren Nelson Mandela and the Rainbow of Culture | 215 |
Bibliography | 233 |
Online Sources | 261 |
The Authors | 263 |
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