Naipaul, V(idiadhar) S(urajprasad) (Vol. 7) | Naipaul, V(idiadhar) S(urajprasad) 1932–
Naipaul, V(idiadhar) S(urajprasad) 1932–
Naipaul is a highly regarded novelist, essayist, and short story writer. A self-styled stateless traveller born in Trinidad of Indian parents and educated in England, he writes fine nonfiction books on travel and deals in his fiction with themes of alienation, of self-exile, of rootlessness. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 1-4, rev. ed.)
Mr Naipaul's new novel [Guerillas] opens with the view of a city, the centre of an 'emerging' Caribbean island; it straddles over a great plain, already falling into decay, its redeveloped areas of glass and concrete already turning into slums, the rubbish burning on the dumps, and the naked children playing in the streets. Roche, a man with a 'past' is driving through the heat and the dust of it with Jane, an English girl of no fixed opinions…. Fire becomes the prevailing image of the book, expressed not so much as a natural force but as an agent for...
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