However, Naipaul has never compromised his highly personal vision of experience. In the many books he has published since 1957 (roughly half of them fiction and the other half nonfiction), he has displayed a profound skepticism about social and political ideologies--whether they manifest themselves in the form of the stultifying conventions of traditional value systems or in what he sees as the fashionable shibboleths of contemporary liberal and radical perspectives--and a recurrent concern with what he appears to regard as the quintessential twentieth-century predicament, that of human displacement. Satire of the religious and social tenets of Hinduism in his early novels has been replaced by more somber accounts of the ways individuals become entrapped by systems and causes in his more recent fiction and nonfiction, and the mode of his writing has changed considerably, from broad comedy in his early work to a flatter and more neutral narrative style, but throughout there is a remarkable consistency of attitude and similarity of theme.
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