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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 grandfather, an indentured worker, had come from India. An a...

"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 shaping of experience into an affecting and intelligent narrative that re...

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 incisive travel journalism, and his ironic accounts of co...

In V.S. Naipaul's "A Bend in the River," a novel set in this soporific city in the center of Africa, an Indian businessman named Mahesh explains the ethical underpinnings of local life. "It isn't that there's no right and wrong here," says Mahesh....

KENTUCKY BLUES by Derek Robinson Cassell, L16.99, pp. 520, ISBN 0304361828 Geography makes history, claims Derek Robinson's big, rich, 19th-century saga. The action - and inaction - are set in Rock Springs, Dundee County, Kentucky; a geographical dead-end. There's a bulge in the...

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 A Bend in the River.

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 colonial to postcolonial Africa.”

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's novel is of a time of European ascendancy. Naipaul's book succeeds Conrad's and like it may come to be seen in time as one of the very best things written about Africa. The difference is that A Bend In The River is the story of European, Arab and Asian eclipse…. [Nothing] is pre-ordained in A Bend In The River. True, ...