The Mystic Masseur Overview
The Mystic Masseur follows the life of Ganesh Ramsumair, a Trinidadian of Indian heritage. In college, Ganesh trains to be a teacher, but he ultimately becomes disinterested with the profession. Instead, he returns to Trinidad’s countryside and becomes a highly respected spiritual healer. As he gains money and fame, Ganesh attempts to utilize his resources and influence as a means of helping the less fortunate. The novel explores themes of literature, religion, socioeconomics, personal influence, and altruism.
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V. S. Naipaul Biographies (5)
1,152 words, approx. 4 pages
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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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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V. S. Naipaul
V(idiadhar) S(urajprasad) Naipaul