'The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.' This unforgettable opening line is from which author's A Bend in the River and lent itself to the title of that authors authorized biography The World Is What It Is by Patrick French?
"in 1996. The biography has been extensively reviewed: the reviewers include Paul Theroux, who wrote an earlier book about Naipaul. The biography was selected by the editors of the ""New York Times Book Review"" as one of the ""Times""' ""10 Best Books of 2008"". It won the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography, and the British literary award the Hawthornden Prize. The World Is What It Is The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul is a biography of the Nobel Prize-winning author V. S. Naipaul by Patrick French. It was published in"
"The book was selected by the editors of ""The New York Times Book Review"" as one of the ""10 Best books of 2008."" In 2008, ""The World Is What It Is"" was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award in America, and was also short listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize. French was also awarded the Hawthornden Prize in 2009 for the book. In 2011, Patrick released his book ""India: A Portrait"", billed as ""an intimate biography of 1.2 billion people"". The book is a narrative of the social and economic revolutions that are transforming India. As part of the"
"Patrick French Patrick French (born 1966) is a British writer, historian and academician. He was educated at the University of Edinburgh where he studied English and American literature, and received a PhD in South Asian Studies. He was appointed as the inaugural Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Ahmedabad University in July 2017. French is the author of several books including: ""Younghusband: the Last Great Imperial Adventurer"" (1994), a biography of Francis Younghusband; ""The World Is What It Is"" (2008), an authorised biography of Nobel Laureate V. S. Naipaul which won the National Book Critics Circle Award"
"Tibet in 1999."" ""The Independent"" described the book as ""intelligent as well as passionate in its approach."" Pico Iyer in ""The Los Angeles Times"" book review described French as a ""scrupulous and disciplined writer"" who ""has a decided gift for inspired and heartfelt research and a knack for coming upon overlooked details that are worth several volumes of analysis."" ""The World Is What It Is"", an authorised biography of Nobel Prize–winning author V. S. Naipaul was published in 2008. In the ""New York Review of Books"", Ian Buruma described French as the inventor of a new genre, ""the confessional biography."""
"that are believed to be unnecessary in creating a complete human being, despite no ground knowledge on the subject. Erwin Schrödinger ""What Is Life"" Manuel De Landa ""A Thousand Years Of Nonlinear History"" Evelyn Fox Keller ""Refiguring Life"" Marcel Duchamp John Von Neumann Stuart Kauffman Friedrich Nietzsche Luce Irigaray 2012 WinWin, Paul Petro Contemporary Art /Toronto, ON 2008 Homeostatic, Tom Thomson Art Gallery /Owen Sound, ON 2007 Fit/Unfit: A Survey Exhibition, Art Gallery of Hamilton /Hamilton, ON 2005 Flo'nGlo, Paul Petro Contemporary Art (in Images Festival) /Toronto, ON 2004 Fit/Unfit: A Survey Exhibition, The Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography /Ottawa,"
"""in a way to some extent depend on her. They stopped being dry.” Although ""A Bend in the River"" did not win the Booker Prize, despite being shortlisted, it is discussed by two characters in ""The Inheritance of Loss"" by Kiran Desai, which won the prize in 2006. A Bend in the River A Bend in the River is a 1979 novel by Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul. The novel, telling the story of Salim, a merchant in post-colonial mid-20th Century Africa, is one of Naipaul's best known works and was widely praised. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize"
"the country or its president. Yet there are possible identifiers. Thus the reader learns that the town is located in the heart of Africa, at the end of the navigable river, just below the cataracts, and the European colonisers had been French-speaking, perhaps Belgians. Naipaul's description has been interpreted to point to the town of Kisangani on the Congo river. A link between the ""Big Man"" and President Mobutu of Zaire was drawn by some reviewers. Naipaul credits his extramarital affair with Margaret Gooding for giving ""A Bend in the River"" and his later books greater fluidity, saying that these"
"Nothing Like It in the World Nothing Like It In the World is a narrative history of the planning and construction of the Pacific Railroad during the 1860s which connected the San Francisco Bay and Council Bluffs, Iowa by rail. Written by popular historian Stephen Ambrose, it was first published in August 2000, by Simon & Schuster. When published in the late summer of 2000, ""Nothing Like It in the World"" was, like many of Ambrose's previous books, an immediate commercial success and quickly reached the ""Number 1"" position on the ""New York Times"" Best Seller List (Non-Fiction) on September"
"A Bend in the River A Bend in the River is a 1979 novel by Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul. The novel, telling the story of Salim, a merchant in post-colonial mid-20th Century Africa, is one of Naipaul's best known works and was widely praised. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1979. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked ""A Bend in the River"" #83 on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. ""A Bend in the River"" has also been criticized for a perceived defence of European colonialism in Africa. Set in an"
"no return anymore. That is the point one has to reach"""". The edition, impeccable, shines with several illustrations by Egon Schiele. ""I don’t know what I am. I don’t know who I am. Sometimes, in rainy days, I take my shoe off and, when I press it against my ear for a while, I can talk with Jean Cocteau, Antonin Artaud or Franz Kafka. Cocteau has the voice of wet grass in spring. Kafka, nevertheless, hit by barbiturates, is almost mute, no voice at all: I’d say he is just a little feverish thread more in the nothingness. ""I am"
"in this world eternal powers as aggressiveness and the strife for power win. There is no place for such concepts as freedom, responsibility, idealism: in the jungle of human existence a sacrifice for a good cause is meaningless. Specific elements of this pessimistic worldview are kindred to Marquis de Sade, Heinrich von Kleist, Arthur Schopenhauer, Sigmund Freud, Louis-Ferdinand Céline and Ludwig Wittgenstein. There does not exist any benefit of hindsight, and the past is just as unknowable as is the present, if only because the past is never fully accessible. Osewoudt, the protagonist of ""The Darkroom of Damocles"", is unable"
"other people, and how it affects our moral life also a great deal in the drama, and in the Being and Nothingness as well. Sartre, Jean-Paul: ""Nekrassov"", 1955 Sartre, Jean-Paul: ""Being and Nothingness""; https://books.google.hu/books?id=3HfG1eatrOsC&lpg=PA213&ots=LKpHC-a-8k&dq=quotes%20from%20sartre%20nekrassov&hl=hu&pg=PA207#v=onepage&q=quotes%20from%20sartre%20nekrassov&f=false Nekrassov Nekrassov, or the Farce in Eight Scenes is a satirical drama written by Jean-Paul Sartre in 1955. Nekrassov takes place in the 1950s Paris. It shows the life of the unfortunate journalist Sibilot who works at the right-wing newspaper of France, Soir á Paris. His work is mostly to write anti-communist propaganda. The main turnpoint in his life when he cannot come up with any"
"Life of Arthur Rimbaud"" was released by Doubleday on July 19, 2011. He has two daughters, Lily and Kate. Bruce Duffy Bruce Michael Duffy (born June 9, 1951) is an American author. He is best known for his novel ""The World As I Found It"", a fictionalized account of the life of Ludwig Wittgenstein, a prominent 20th century philosopher. In 1988, Duffy won a Whiting Award and received a Guggenheim Fellowship. Joyce Carol Oates named ""The World As I Found It"" as one of ""five great nonfiction novels,"" calling the book ""a bold and original work of fiction"" and ""one"
"and Again"" and ""City"", Philippe Sollers's ""Interview with Philippe Forest"", Paul Valéry's ""Aphorismes"", François Villon's ""Hanged Man's Ballad"", Ludwig Wittgenstein's ""Philosophical Investigations"", Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's ""The Gulag Archipelago"", Léon Brunschvicg's ""Descartes et Pascal, lecteurs de Montaigne"", A.E. Van Vogt's ""The World of Null-A"", V.S. Naipaul's ""A Bend in the River"", Mao Zedong (or Zhou Enlai's) famous ""too early to tell"" quote, Laurent Schwartz's Theory of Distributions, Paul Dirac's Dirac delta function, Plato's proverb ""beauty is the splendour of the truth"" and works by Bernhard Riemann, Jack London and Luc Ferry. It includes references to Claude Monet and Auguste Rodin's ""The Thinker"""
"six lives. The novel is written in third person and there are some chapters in which it turns to first person and Missy's killer narrates his version of what happened. A Bend in the Road A Bend in the Road is the fifth novel by the American author Nicholas Sparks, who also wrote the romance love novels ""A Walk to Remember"", ""The Notebook"", and ""The Rescue"". It was published in 2001. The story was inspired by Sparks's brother-in-law, Bob. Miles Ryan's life seemed to end the day his wife Missy was killed in a hit-and-run accident two years ago. As"
"Howard W. French Howard Waring French (born October 14, 1957) is an American journalist, author, and photographer, as well as professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Prior to re-entering academia, he was a longtime foreign correspondent and senior writer with ""The New York Times."" His latest book is ""Everything Under the Heavens: How the Past Helps Shape China's Push for Global Power"" (Knopf, March 2017). French was a university instructor in the Ivory Coast in the 1980s before becoming a reporter. He has reported extensively on the political affairs of Western and Central Africa. These reports were"
"The man is standing on a riverside, be it the Elbe, the Seine, the Volga, or the Mississippi. The man stands there crazed, frozen, hungry, and damn tired. And then there is a splash, and the ripples make neat little circles, and then the curtain drops."" The Other counters that while there is always suffering in the world, there is always hope, and there is always happiness. Dwelling on the suffering cannot accomplish anything; you can make things better by focusing on the good; as he says, """"Do you fear the darkness between two lamp-posts?"""" One by one, each of"
"phenomenological point of view, nothingness is an experienced reality and cannot be a merely subjective mistake. The absence of a friend and absence of money hint at a ""being"" of nothingness. It is part of reality. In the first chapter, Sartre develops a theory of nothingness which is central to the whole book, especially to his account for bad faith and freedom. For him, nothingness is not just a mental concept that sums up negative judgements such as ""Pierre is not here"" and ""I have no money"". Though ""it is evident that non-being always appears within the limits of a"
"includes the 1973 Chilean coup d'état as part of French history. The book's release coincided with the 2017 French presidential election, although it is not explicitly political. ""Histoire mondiale de la France"" became a best-seller, and was positively reviewed by left-leaning outlets such as ""Le Monde"" and ""Libération"", while being attacked by right-leaning outlets and conservative intellectuals. It was dismissed by Eric Zemmour, who described it as ""historically correct"". François-Xavier Bellamy criticised the book for not defining France within its borders and sovereign prerogative. Alain Finkielkraut criticized it for not to mentioning French literature. Patrick Boucheron Patrick Boucheron (born 1965)"
"that the author's view is ""the end [is] less important than the journey itself."" She closes with words of strong praise: ""There is nothing in this century that rivals Patrick O'Brian's achievement in his chosen genre. His novels embrace with loving clarity the full richness of the 18th-century world. They embody the cruelty of battle, the comedy of men's lives, the uncertain fears that plague their hearts; and yet, not far away, is the vision of an ideal existence."" John Casey, writing in ""The Washington Post"" wrote that O'Brian covered the ""year after Waterloo, so it necessarily deals with a"
"Bruce Duffy Bruce Michael Duffy (born June 9, 1951) is an American author. He is best known for his novel ""The World As I Found It"", a fictionalized account of the life of Ludwig Wittgenstein, a prominent 20th century philosopher. In 1988, Duffy won a Whiting Award and received a Guggenheim Fellowship. Joyce Carol Oates named ""The World As I Found It"" as one of ""five great nonfiction novels,"" calling the book ""a bold and original work of fiction"" and ""one of the most ambitious first novels ever published"" (Salon.com). Duffy was born in Washington, D.C., the son of Irish-American"
"Pierre F., A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, [1987] (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002). Derrida, Jacques, Politics of Friendship, [1994] trans. G. Collins (London: Verso, 1997). Heidegger, Martin, Being and Time, [1927], trans. Joan Stambaugh, (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, c1996). Lacan, Jacques, The Language of the Self, [1968] trans. A Wilden (Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Paperbacks Edition, 1981). Nancy, Jean-Luc, ""The Inoperative Community"", The Inoperative Community, (University of Minnesota Press, 2001) pp. 1–41. Sartre, Jean-Paul, Being and Nothingness, [1953] Trans. Hazel Barnes (New York: Washington Square Press, 1968). Shapiro, Michael J., National Times and Other Times:"
"the empty abstractions of reason appeared as eternal entities. Becoming (philosophy) In philosophy, becoming is the possibility of change in a thing that has being, that exists. In the philosophical study of ontology, the concept of becoming originated in ancient Greece with the philosopher Heraclitus of Ephesus, who in the sixth century BC, said that nothing in this world is constant except change and becoming. This point was made by Heraclitus with the famous quote ""No man ever steps in the same river twice."" His theory stands in direct contrast to the philosophic idea of being, first argued by Parmenides,"
"literature. The Fort at River's Bend The Fort at River's Bend is a 1997 historical novel by Canadian novelist Jack Whyte. Written as part of a single book, ""The Sorcerer"", it was split for publishing purposes. The book encompasses the beginning of Arthur's education at a long abandoned Roman fort, where he is taught most of the skills needed to rule, and fight for, the people of Britain. The novel is part of the Camulod Chronicles, a series of books which devise the context in which the Arthurian legend could have been placed had it been historically founded. Written as"
"The Tragedy and Hope of Africa"" (Knopf, 2004). French is also an internationally exhibited documentary photographer, whose multi-year project called ""Disappearing Shanghai"", photographing the rapidly shrinking old quarters of Shanghai, was shown in Asia, Europe and the United States. A book containing this work, ""Disappearing Shanghai: Photographs and Poems of an Intimate Way of Life"", was published in 2012, in collaboration with the novelist and poet Qiu Xiaolong. French is president of IRIN, a not-for-profit news agency that focuses on the humanitarian sector, based in Geneva, Switzerland. Fellowships: Honors Howard W. French Howard Waring French (born October 14, 1957) is"
"told through the history of a small chalk river and the biographies of a handful of men whose lives the river shaped. Charles Rangeley-Wilson Charles Rangeley-Wilson is an author of three works of non-fiction: ""Somewhere Else"" (2004) ""The Accidental Angler"" (2006) and ""Silt Road"" (2013). He is known for his writing in the periodicals ""The Field"" in the UK (in 2001 he won the Periodical Publishers Association ""Specialist Writer of the Year Award"" for his work in that magazine) and ""Gray's Sporting Journal"" in the USA, as well as in newspapers such as ""The Times"" and ""The Daily Telegraph"". A"
"the opinion that the motivating forces of human life can be looked for only in the single, real personality. He rejects all powers that wish to form and determine the individual personality from outside. He traces the course of world history and discovers the fundamental error of mankind to be that it does not place before itself the care and culture of the individual personality, but other impersonal goals and purposes instead. He sees the true liberation of mankind in that men refuse to grant to all such goals a higher reality, but merely use these goals as a means"
"metaphorically speaking, there is no such thing as a good person or a bad person; what happens happens, and it may just as well happen to a ""good"" person as to a ""bad"" person. Because of the world's absurdity, at any point in time, anything can happen to anyone, and a tragic event could plummet someone into direct confrontation with the Absurd. The notion of the Absurd has been prominent in literature throughout history. Many of the literary works of Søren Kierkegaard, Samuel Beckett, Franz Kafka, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Eugène Ionesco, Miguel de Unamuno, Luigi Pirandello, Jean-Paul Sartre, Joseph Heller and"
"in part by the life of Muhammad. V. S. Naipaul (born 1932), born in Trinidad, was another immigrant, who wrote among other things ""A Bend in the River"" (1979). Naipaul won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Many other Commonwealth writers have achieved an international reputation for works in English, including Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe, and playwright Wole Soyinka. Soyinka won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986, as did South African novelist Nadine Gordimer in 1995. Other South African writers in English are novelist J.M. Coetzee (Nobel Prize 2003) and playwright Athol Fugard. Kenya's most internationally renowned author is Ngũgĩ"
"responsible for military atrocities and is widely credited as a founding work of the field of applied ethics.” In 2008 the American Philosophical Association dedicated an issue of its ""Newsletter on Philosophy and Law"" to French because of his “influence in applied ethics and having helped establish the field of applied ethics as a substantive area of research in the philosophy discipline.” In 2014 the American Philosophical Association dedicated a Symposium Session on the Work of Peter French at its Central Division Meetings in Chicago. Peter A. French Peter A. French (born March 19, 1942) is an American philosopher and"
"A Bend in the Road A Bend in the Road is the fifth novel by the American author Nicholas Sparks, who also wrote the romance love novels ""A Walk to Remember"", ""The Notebook"", and ""The Rescue"". It was published in 2001. The story was inspired by Sparks's brother-in-law, Bob. Miles Ryan's life seemed to end the day his wife Missy was killed in a hit-and-run accident two years ago. As deputy sheriff of New Bern, North Carolina, he not only grieves for her and worries about their young son Jonah but longs to bring the unknown driver to justice. Then"
"Writer of the Year Award. In 2002, he won the Foreign Press Association prize for travel writing. Nigel Barley (anthropologist) Nigel Barley (born 1947 in Kingston upon Thames, England) is an anthropologist famous for the books he has written on his experiences. His reputation was established with his first book, ""The Innocent Anthropologist"" (1983), a witty account of anthropological field work in Cameroon. After working in Africa and writing more books about his time there, he moved to Indonesia, where he wrote in a variety of genres: travel, art, historical biography, and fiction. His first book there, the humorous ""Not"
"established between the have and have-not regions in the current world-system. Geographer Harm de Blij detailed those arguments for the general public in ""Why Geography Matters: Three Challenges Facing America"" (2005) and ""The Power of Place: Geography, Destiny, and Globalization's Rough Landscape"" (2008). The World Is Flat The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century is an international best-selling book by Thomas L. Friedman that analyzes globalization, primarily in the early 21st century. The title is a metaphor for viewing the world as a level playing field in terms of commerce, wherein all competitors have an equal"