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A House for Mr Biswas Study Guide

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by V. S. Naipaul
About 58 pages (17,318 words)
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Two radically different novelistic traditions have influenced A House for Mr Biswas: the nineteenth-century English social novel, with its focus on an individual life story amid a large cast of characters, and the existential novels of Camus, particularly The Stranger (1942). Camus, an Algerian in France and a Frenchman in Algeria, poignantly describes the lack of connection between cultural traditions, beliefs, and life. Naipaul, a dispossessed Indian in Trinidad, and a dispossessed colonial in England, experienced a similar difficulty charting a life among traditions that seem alien to.....

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