In a Free State is a short story by V. S. Naipaul. It was published in 1971 as one of three short stories within a book of the same name, but is by far the longest. All three stories have a similar...
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In the following essay, Thieme compares In a Free State to Naipaul's earlier work and concludes that this later effort shows the author moving beyond themes of the wretchedness of Third World colonial life to reflect his personal ability to free himself from the shackles of a colonial mentality.
In the following essay, Boxill asserts that Naipaul understands freedom as having to be paradoxical in order to be meaningful, and discusses the symbolic “prisons” in In a Free State.
