Dec 24, 2009
V. S. Naipaul received the 2001 Nobel Prize in Literature “for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories,” according to the announcement of the award by the Swedish Academy. That assessment describes Half a Life well. Like some other of Naipaul’s novels, it draws directly from personal experience to create a character who has no real native culture and because of it no means to govern or express his desires. He has no single history to call his own.
That character is Willie...
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