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V. S. Naipaul: V.S.Naipaul's 2005 book Literary Occasions
 
 

V. S. Naipaul

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Biography

Name: V. S. Naipaul
Birth Date: August 17, 1932
Place of Birth: Trinidad
Nationality: Bolivian
Gender: Male
Occupations: writer

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Biography of V. S. Naipaul
1,167 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 grandfather, an indentured worker, had come from India. An...
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Biography of V. S. Naipaul
27,416 words, approx. 91 pages
"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...
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Biography of V(idiadhar) S(urajprasad) Naipaul
17,221 words, approx. 57 pages
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...
 


Quotations
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V. S. Naipaul Quotes
752 words, approx. 3 pages
Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (born 17 August 1932 ) is a British writer who was born and raised in Trinidad. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2001. Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 The Enigma of Arrival (1987) 1.2 A Turn in the South (1989) 1.3...
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V. S. Naipaul Quotes
18 words, approx. 1 pages
An autobiography can distort, facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies. It reveals the writer...


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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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V. S. Naipaul Information
1,844 words, approx. 6 pages
Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, KB, TC (born August 17 1932 in Chaguanas, Trinidad and Tobago), better known as V. S. Naipaul, is a Trinidadian-born British writer of Indo-Trinidadian descent, currently resident in Wiltshire. Naipaul was awarded the...


News and Journals
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The Hudson Review
Civilization and V.S. Naipaul
10/01/2002: 5,226 words, approx. 17 pages
Last December, on the day after being presented with the Nobel Prize for Literature, V. S. Naipaul sat down in Stockholm for a televised conversation with three fellow literary laureates, Gunter Grass, Nadine Gordimer, and Seamus Heaney, and with Per Wastberg, a member of...
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Publishers Weekly
V.S. Naipaul. (author) (Interview)
06/06/1994: 2,176 words, approx. 7 pages
His explorations, of self and the world, continue in his latest 'novel' For someone who for most of his highly distinguished writing career has been a comparatively unobtrusive figure, Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul has lately been making quite a splash. Two months...
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The New York Observer
Coetzee\'d5s Master Class in Literary Criticism
7/17/2007: 547 words, approx. 2 pages
INNER WORKINGS: LITERARY ESSAYS 2000-2005By J.M. Coetzee Viking, 304 pages, $25.95 Each of the 21 essays included in Inner Workings: Literary Essays 2000-2005 is named for the author whose works it examines, making the collection’s table of contents read like a syllabus....
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The New York Observer
Bye-Bye to Brick Lane\'d1 Monica Ali Changes Tack
6/25/2006: 1,058 words, approx. 4 pages
Monica Ali is not a subscriber to the guest-worker school of fiction, the vaguely held assumption that what was born abroad should stick with and to its own kind. Like the rest of Europe, the pale Britannia Ms. Ali moved to as a child from...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Selwyn R. Cudjoe
10,647 words, approx. 36 pages
In the following excerpt, Cudjoe positions Naipaul in tradition of the Caribbean short story and traces the development of themes in his short fiction.
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Critical Essay by Richard Kelly
10,420 words, approx. 35 pages
In the following excerpts from his full-length treatment of Naipaul's work, Kelly penetrates the humor of the short stories in Miguel Street and A Flag on the Island to discover the author's emerging disparagement of life and human possibility in places like Trinidad.
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Critical Essay by Robert M. Greenberg
10,335 words, approx. 35 pages
In the following essay, Greenberg considers the impact of Naipaul's racial attitudes and pessimism on his novel The Mimic Men.
 


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