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Man of the world.(Literature)(V.S. Naipaul)(Critical essay)
HAVING WON the Nobel Prize, V.S. Naipaul has long ago reached that stage in a writer's career when anything he writes will be published. Sometimes, this is a good thing; freed from having to work for a "market", the writer can stop writing for publishers and reviewers, that is, actual readers, and begin writing for the one person who counts: the imaginary, the ideal reader. More often, however, guaranteed publication is bad for a writer; it means he no longer feels the fruitful burden of having to perfect his thoughts for others, and becomes slack. And so the arrival of that much wished-for thing--artistic freedom--often coincides with decline, as the constraints which ...
- Exquisite command.(The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S....
- Magazine article from: Evelyn Waugh Newsletter and Studies Davis, Robert Murray March 22, 2009 700+ words
...if one is not interested in Naipaul's life and work, Patrick...indicate the reception of Naipaul's many books. And incidentally...gives some juicy gossip, like Anthony Powell's dislike of "the sentimentality...almost always abound" and Naipaul's horror at evidence in...
- Seeing through V.S. Naipaul's eyes.(A Writer's People: Ways of Looking and...
- Magazine article from: Contemporary Review Ninian, Alex December 22, 2008 700+ words
...Feeling. V.S. Naipaul. Picador. [pounds...from Virgil to Anthony Powell, but the sub...to Seepersad Naipaul, his father, Derek Walton and Anthony Powell who featured in...from his father, Anthony Powell (for seventeen...twice. V.S. Naipaul discusses at length...
- Naipaul Writes Home.(Review)
- Magazine article from: The Nation Shankar, S. February 28, 2000 700+ words
...and Son: Family Letters. By V.S. Naipaul. Edited by Gillon R. Aitken. Knopf...when I was about the age that V.S. Naipaul was when he departed Trinidad for England...to me both incongruous and fitting that Naipaul-to the best of my recollection pretty...
- V.S. Naipaul's A way in the world: contesting liminality by translating the...
- Magazine article from: Literator: Journal of Literary Criticism, comparative linguistics and literary studies Ying, Zhu April 1, 2006 700+ words
...the second part or the article discusses Naipaul's strategy of taking distance to counteract...die teken van "die Ander", bespreek Naipaul se strategie om liminaliteit te bestry...sectionalised meditations through which V.S. Naipaul arrives at a deeper understanding of his...
- Los caminos de Naipaul.(El Angel)
- Newspaper article from: Reforma (México D.F., México) July 28, 2002 700+ words
...de mayo, en Madrid, fue para V.S. Naipaul, al menos durante el arranque de la Feria...sorprendente: libros, libros y ms libros de Naipaul en los escaparates de El Corte Ingls de...El mundo es lo que es" -como escribe Naipaul al comienzo de una de sus novelas...
- Author V. S. Naipaul Interviewed
- Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered May 23, 1994 700+ words
...theme music] SIEGEL: Novelist V. S. Naipaul's new book is about Trinidad where he...and throughout the new world. V. S. NAIPAUL, Author: [excerpt from tape] We didn...SIEGEL: And I'm Robert Siegel. V.S. Naipaul's new book A Way in the World is a novel...
- La tela de arana: Theroux y Naipaul.(El Angel)
- Newspaper article from: Reforma (México D.F., México) April 13, 2003 700+ words
...de Fatigas Ni Paul Theroux ni V.S. Naipaul son santos de mi devocin. Algo tiene...obstinadamente, l mismo. En cuanto a Sir Vidia Naipaul, Premio Nobel de Literatura 2001, el...soporto la monumental ignorancia de Naipaul, emisor de fatwas y diatribas que pretenden...
- ONLY DISCONNECT.(conversation with V.S. Naipaul)(Brief Article)(Interview)
- Magazine article from: Harper's Magazine April 1, 2000 700+ words
...unpublished telephone interview with V. S. Naipaul conducted on January 21 by Akash Kapur...journalist based in Oxford, England. Naipaul's most recent book is Between Father...AKASH KAPUR: Can you hear me? V. S. NAIPAUL: Yes, I can hear you. Can you hear...
