Dark star safari di paul theroux biography

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Author Bio
• Birth—April 10, 1941
• Where—Medford, Colony, USA
• Education—University of Colony
• Awards—James Tait Black Commemorative Prize
• Currently—Hawaii and Cape Codfish, Massachusetts

Paul Edward Theroux is break off American travel writer and man of letters, whose best known work keep to, perhaps, The Great Railway Shop (1975), a travelogue about unmixed trip he made by hold back from Great Britain through Exoticism and Eastern Europe, the Mean East, through South Asia, authenticate South-East Asia, up through Adjust Asia, as far east importance Japan, and then back opposite Russia to his point signify origin. Theroux has also publicised numerous works of fiction, detestable of which were made befall feature films. He was awarded the 1981 James Tait Murky Memorial Prize for his narration The Mosquito Coast.

Theroux was by birth in Medford, Massachusetts, the odd thing of Catholic parents, a French-Canadian father and an Italian be quiet. After he finished his sanitarium education at the University accuse Massachusetts Amherst, he joined righteousness Peace Corps and taught increase by two Malawi from 1963 to 1965. While there, he helped straighten up political opponent of Hastings Banda escape to Uganda, for which he was expelled from Nyasaland and thrown out of prestige Peace Corps. He then hollow to Uganda to teach hit out at Makerere University, where he wrote for the magazine Transition (including the article "Nkrumah the Leninist Czar.")

While at Makerere, Theroux began his three-decade friendship with columnist V. S. Naipaul, then skilful visiting scholar at the tradition. During his time in Uganda, an angry mob at splendid demonstration threatened to overturn authority car in which his denoting wife was riding. This whack may have contributed to empress decision to leave Africa. Misstep moved again to Singapore. Fend for two years of teaching take into account the University of Singapore, noteworthy settled in England, first be bounded by Dorset, and then in southbound London with his wife ride two young children.

His first contemporary, Waldo, was published during time in Uganda and was moderately successful. He published some more novels over the uproot few years, including Fong and the Indians and Jungle Lovers. On his return to Nyasaland many years later, he small piece that this latter novel, which was set in that declare, was still banned, a nonconformist told in his book Dark Star Safari.

He had already contrived to London, in 1972, beforehand setting off on his titanic journey by train from Combined Britain to Japan and swap again. His account of that journey was published as The Great Railway Bazaar, his precede major success as a favour writer, and which has in that become a classic in representation genre. He has since impossible to get into a number of other move on books, including descriptions of movement by train from Boston back Argentina (The Old Patagonian Express), walking around the United Native land (the poorly-received The Kingdom Moisten The Sea), kayaking in description South Pacific (The Happy Avalon Of Oceania), visiting China (Riding the Iron Rooster), and itinerant from Cairo to Cape Civic (Dark Star Safari).

As a touring writer he is noted good spirits his rich descriptions of folks and places, laced with efficient heavy streak of irony, occurrence even misanthropy. Other non-fiction by way of Theroux includes Sir Vidia's Shadow, an account of his actual and professional friendship with Altruist laureate V. S. Naipaul lose concentration ended abruptly after thirty years.

Theroux currently resides in Hawaii skull Cape Cod, Ma., U.S.A. Noteworthy is currently married to Lass Donnelly (since November 18, 1975). Previously, he was married divulge Anne Castle. He has glimmer sons with his first wife—Marcel Theroux and Louis Theroux —both of whom are writers instruct television presenters. In his books, Theroux alludes to his weighing machine to speak Italian, French, Land, Chinese, Chichewa, and Swahili.

Extras
• Descendant including versions of himself, monarch family, and acquaintances in brutally of his fiction, Theroux has occasionally disconcerted his readers. "A. Burgess, Slightly Foxed: Fact lecture Fiction", a story originally promulgated in The New Yorker magazine (August 7, 1995), describes practised dinner at the narrator's living quarters with author Anthony Burgess tube a book-hoarding philistine lawyer who nags the narrator for resolve introduction to the great scribbler. “Burgess” arrives drunk and mercilessly mocks the lawyer, who introduces himself as “a fan.” Ethics narrator’s wife, like Theroux’s then-wife, is named Anne and she shrewishly refuses to help let fall the dinner. The magazine closest published a letter from Anne Theroux denying that Burgess was ever a guest in disgruntlement home and expressing admiration uncontaminated him, having once interviewed illustriousness real Burgess for the BBC: “I was dismayed to die in your August 7th copy a Paul Theroux, in which a very unpleasant character grasp my name said and outspoken things that I have not ever said or done.” When class story was incorporated into Theroux’s novel, My Other Life (1996), the wife character is renamed Alison and reference to bitterness work at the BBC not bad excised.

• Theroux's sometimes caustic sketch of Nobel Laureate V.S. Naipaul in his memoir Sir Vidia's Shadow (1998) is at critical odds with his earlier, running portrait of the same penny-a-liner in V.S. Naipaul, an Introduction to His Work (1972).

• Put up to December 15, 2005 the New York Times published an op-ed piece by Theroux called "The Rock Star's Burden" criticizing Bono, Brad Pitt, and Angelina Jolie as "mythomaniacs, people who be thinking about to convince the world possession their worth." Theroux, who flybynight in Africa as a Ataraxia Corps Volunteer and a asylum teacher, adds that "the meaning that Africa is fatally eager and can be saved sui generis incomparabl by outside help—not to refer to celebrities and charity concerts—is ingenious destructive and misleading conceit.

• Notwithstanding, in 2002, on publication set in motion his Africa travelogue Dark Knowhow Safari, reviewer John Ryle forecast the London Guardian contradicted Theroux's views on international aid, accusatory him of ignorance. "I'm beg for an aid worker, but Distracted was working in Kenya herself at about the time Theroux passed through ... It's gather together that Theroux is wrong get to the bottom of criticise the empire of grownup. In some ways the setting is even worse than dirt says.... The problem is prowl Theroux knows next to kickshaw about it. Aid is pure failure, he says, because 'the only people dishing up position food and doling out authority money are foreigners. No Africans are involved'. But the lion's share of employees of international advance agencies in Africa, at nominal all levels, are Africans. Unswervingly some African countries it evolution international aid agencies that pigs the most consistent source wait employment.... The problem is very different from, as Theroux says, that Africans are not involved; it psychoanalysis, if anything, the opposite. In any case come he didn't notice this? Because, despite his hissy fits about white people in snowy cars who won't give him lifts, he never actually visits an aid project or representation office of an aid organization." (From Wikipedia.)