V. S. Naipaul

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V. S. Naipaul Criticism

V. S. Naipaul, a Trinidadian-born English writer renowned for his clear prose and incisive critique of postcolonial societies, has left a profound impact on contemporary literature. His body of work, spanning novels, essays, and travel writing, often blurs the line between autobiography and journalism. Naipaul's early works, such as Miguel Street and A Flag on the Island, draw deeply from his Trinidadian upbringing and showcase his talent for narrative skill and humor, while also exploring themes of alienation and cultural deprivation, as analyzed in The Comic Island and Shipwrecked and Carnival.

Contents

  • Principal Works
  • Naipaul, V. S. (Vol. 105)
    • The Anglo-Indian Theme
    • The Novelist V. S. Naipaul Talks about His Work to Ronald Bryden
    • Lost Worlds, Lost Heroes
    • The Novelist as Dictator
    • The Paradox of Freedom: V. S. Naipaul's In a Free State
    • The Ironic Approach: The Novels of V. S. Naipaul
    • V. S. Naipaul: A Wager on the Triumph of Darkness
    • V. S. vs. The Rest
    • A Novel for Our Time: V. S. Naipaul's Guerrillas
    • Signs of Life
    • The Root of Rootlessness
    • Con Men and Conquerors
    • Naipaul's Written World
  • Naipaul, V(idiadhar) S(urajprasad) (Vol. 13)
    • Robert D. Hamner
    • John Ayre
    • Un Pé Pourrie
  • Naipaul, V(idiadhar) S(urajprasad) (Vol. 9)
  • Naipaul, V. S. (Vol. 199)
    • The Garden Trampled: or, the Liquidation of African Culture in V. S. Naipaul's A Bend in the River
    • A Second Look at the Faithful
    • V. S. Naipaul: The Art of Fiction CLIV
    • The Politics and Poetics of Diaspora in V. S. Naipaul's A Way in the World
    • The House of Mr. Naipaul
    • Naipaul Writes Home
    • Father Knows Best
    • Claiming the Burden: Naipaul's Africa
    • The Native Returns: Conrad and Orientalism in V. S. Naipaul's An Area of Darkness
    • Anger and the Alchemy of Literary Method in V. S. Naipaul's Political Fiction: The Case of The Mimic Men
    • Review of Between Father and Son
    • Saving Vidia
    • An Innocent, but Not at Home
    • A Perfectly Targeted Prize
    • The Riddle of Identity: Preserving the Idea of Freedom Despite the Weight of History
    • Review of Half a Life
    • Review of Half a Life
    • The Razor's Edge
    • Naipaul's Nobel
    • Naipaul's ‘B. Wordsworth.’
    • Sir Vidia and the Prize
    • Travelling Through Colonialism and Postcolonialism: V. S. Naipaul's A Way in the World
    • V. S. Naipaul's Pursuit of Happiness
    • Civilization and V. S. Naipaul
    • Review of Half a Life
    • A Mind So Fine: The Contradictions of V. S. Naipaul
  • Naipaul, V(idiadhar) S(urajprasad) (Vol. 18)
    • A Novel of Hope and Fear in the Third World
    • News from Nowhere
    • V. S. Naipaul and the Uses of Literacy
    • Looking Backward: 'A Bend in the River'
    • After Conrad
    • 'The Return of Eva Perón'
    • 'The Return of Eva Peron'
    • From the Third World
    • Bitter Dispatches from the Third World
    • Without Regret or Hope
  • Naipaul, V(idiadhar) S(urajprasad) (Vol. 4)
  • Naipaul, V(idiadhar) S(urajprasad) (Vol. 7)
  • Naipaul, V. S.
    • Potpourri of the Antilles
    • Darkest Naipaulia
    • In a Free State by V. S. Naipaul
    • To Be Without Roots
    • Displaced Person
    • Naipaul's Third World: A Not so Free State
    • Naipaul's Painters and Their Pictures
    • The Short Fiction
    • Humour and Sympathy: Miguel Street and other stories
    • Tradition, Miguel Street, and Other Stories: The First Period of Naipaul's Development
    • The Comic Island and Shipwrecked
    • Carnival
    • Abroad
  • Further Reading