SOURCE: “The Paradox of Freedom: V. S. Naipaul's In a Free State,” in Critique: Studies in Modern Fiction, Vol. 18, No. 1, 1977, pp. 81-91.
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.
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