A House for Mr Biswas is a more mature and assured work than Naipaul's earlier novels, which are lighter in tone and more comic. Part of the reason for the complexity of A House for Mr Biswas is its narrative point of view. Although the narration is in the third person, the "Prologue" and "Epilogue" have a more personal quality, almost as if Anand were telling the story. Unlike Naipaul's earlier novels where the comedy is external, the comic element in A.....
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