Sir Vidia’s Shadow (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Paul Theroux
- First Published: 1998
- Type of Work: Memoirs
- Time of Work: 1966-1996
- Setting: Primarily Africa and England
- Principal Characters: Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, Paul Theroux
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography, Memoir
- Subjects: Africa or Africans, Traveling or travelers, Love or romance, Authors or writers, Literature, Marriage, Friendship, Novelists
- Locales: Africa, England
V. S. Naipaul (known to his friends as Vidia) and Paul Theroux first met in 1966 in Kampala, Uganda, where Theroux was teaching English at Makerere University and Naipaul was serving out a term as a reluctant visiting lecturer. Naipaul was the older and more accomplished of the two. His reputation as a novelist was already well established, while Theroux had yet to publish anything. Aspiring writer Theroux, not surprisingly, was eager to make Naipaul’s acquaintance. He was flattered and excited when Naipaul began to give him advice and encouragement.
The portrait Theroux paints...
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