Biography Essay"Half the writer's work . . . is the discovery of his subject." With this statement V. S. Naipaul declares his purpose as a writer and the object of his craft—the imaginative shap...
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V. S. Naipaul (born 1932) was one of the foremost spokespersons in English prose of the post-colonial Third World.Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul was born August 17, 1932, in Trinidad, where his grandfa...
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V. S. Naipaul is both one of the most highly regarded and one of the most controversial of contemporary writers. Widely admired in North America and Europe for the lucidity of his prose style, his inc...
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In a 1994 interview with John F. Baker, V. S. Naipaul said: “I'd like to travel some more before the body shuts down completely. But I can't travel without writing. I love to see things come out ...
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V. S. Naipaul is a gifted contemporary novelist. No important guide to twentieth-century literature is presently without a reference to his work, which has been prolific. In the early stages of his ca...
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Critical Essay by Benny Green
Africa has become remote again, a mystery to be explained—at which point enter V. S. Naipaul with a book of wonderful authority and wisdom [A Bend in the River]. ...
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Critical Essay by Edith Milton
Exile as the major condition of life is a central theme in Naipaul's A Bend in the River. (p. 100)
Naipaul implies [in the novel] that there is a conflict bet...
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Critical Essay by Christopher Hope
Reading V. S. Naipaul's new novel A Bend In The River, one is easily reminded of Heart Of Darkness. Resemblances quickly declare themselves…. Conrad&#...
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In the following essay, Wise contrasts the views of Chinua Achebe and Naipaul on the subject of modern African history and culture as evinced in Achebe's Things Fall Apart and Naipaul's ...
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In the following essay, Samantrai examines the function of imperialistic discourse in A Bend in the River and describes the novel as “a fictional documentation of the political shift from colon...
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Teaching A Bend in the River
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With summer just over the hill, and daylight lingering into evening again, one may find no better way to spend a quiet afternoon than fishing. Angling has long been one of America’s favorite ...
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V. S. Naipaul
V(idiadhar) S(urajprasad) Naipaul
Critical Essay by Benny Green
Gone Fishing
