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"V. S. Naipaul is the most compelling literary figure of the last fifty years. Producing, uniquely, masterpieces of both fiction and non-fiction, his is a gift born of a forceful, visionary impulse. With great feeling for his formidable body of work, and exclusive access to his private papers and personal recollections, Patrick French has produced a luminous and astonishing account of this enigmatic genius." "Researched with the full cooperation of its Nobel prize-winning subject, Patrick French traces with a sympathetic brilliance and devastating insight the roots of V.S. Naipaul's unparalleled gift, in what will become a landmark in biography."--Jacket.

Authors, Trinidadian --- Naipaul, V. S. --- Naipaul, Vidiadhar Surajprasad

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V. S. Naipaul is a major and controversial figure in postcolonial and world literature. This book provides a challenging and uncompromisingly honest study that engages with history, genre theory, aesthetics, and global literary culture, with close reference to Naipaul's published and archival material. In his fiction and creative histories, the definition of the modern idea of world literature is informed by the importance of an artistic ordering of perception. Although often expressing ideas that are prejudicial and morally repugnant, there is an honesty in his writings where one finds extraordinary insights into how life is experienced within colonial structures of power. These colonial structures provided no abstract unity to the field of literary expression and ignored vernacular cultures. The book argues that a universal ideology of the aesthetic, transcending time, regions, and languages, provides world literature with a unity which is possible only within a critical universal humanism attuned to heroic readings of texts and cultures.

English literature --- History and criticism. --- Naipaul, V. S., --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Naipaul, V. S.

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Allusions in literature --- Naipaul, V. S. --- Knowledge and learning.

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Naipaul, Vidiadhar S. --- Naipaul, V. S. --- -Criticism and interpretation --- West Indies --- In literature. --- Naipaul, Vidiadhar Surajprasad --- Naipaul, Vidiadhar Surajprasad. --- Naipaul, V.S. --- Naipaul, Vidiadhar Surajprasad, --- Naĭpol, V. S., --- Naĭpol, Vidiadkhar Suradzhprasad, --- Найпол, В. С., --- Найпол, Видиадхар Сураджпрасад, --- נאיפול, ו. ס. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Naĭpol, V. S.

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An up-to-date critical survey of all Naipaul's major work giving a cohesive view of his artistic development.

Naipaul, Vidiadhar S. --- Naipaul, V. S. --- Criticism and interpretation --- West Indies --- In literature --- -Criticism and interpretation --- In literature. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Naipaul, V.S. --- Naipaul, Vidiadhar Surajprasad, --- Naĭpol, V. S., --- Naĭpol, Vidiadkhar Suradzhprasad, --- Найпол, В. С., --- Найпол, Видиадхар Сураджпрасад, --- נאיפול, ו. ס. --- Naĭpol, V. S. --- Naipaul, V. S. - Criticism and interpretation --- West Indies - In literature