Magic Seeds (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: V. S. Naipaul
- First Published: 2004
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The 1980's and the 1990's
- Setting: Berlin, India, and London
- Principal Characters: Willie Chandran, Sarojini, Bhoj Narayan, Ramachandra, Einstein, Roja, Roger , Marian, Marcus
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Self-discovery, Prisons, Revolutionaries, 1980’s, India or East Indian people, London, Guerrillas or guerrilla warfare, 1990’s, Berlin, Architecture or architects
- Locales: London, England, Berlin, Germany, India
At the conclusion to Magic Seeds, Indian-born, English-educated Willie Chandran tells himself, “It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts.” Coming from another writer, or at the end of any other novel, this judgment might be dismissed as a stagy literary sigh, a weary refusal to deal with ideas. During his long career, however, Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul has witnessed and written about both ideals and mischief in India, Pakistan, South America, the Caribbean region, the United States, Indonesia, Africa, and Iran. Willie's remark comes...
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