A conversation with V.S. Naipaul

with V.S. Naipaul
in Current Affairs, Books
on Tuesday, January 25, 2000 * * * * *

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A conversation with novelist V.S. Naipaul, who discusses a new collection of correspondences with his father that he has published called "Between Father and Son". Naipaul was born in Trinidad to Hindu parents and left home at the age of 17 on a scholarship to Oxford University in 1950. During that period, he regularly exchanged letters with his father, also a writer, until the senior Naipaul died suddenly of a heart attack in 1953.

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letter-writing
correspondence
British Imperialism
India
V.S. Naipaul
Iran

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    1. Padmaar Lakshmee  07/03/2008 11:55 PM Report

      I agree with a lot naipuaul has to say and disagree with it a lot

      So my nuance is different thatn Nightfall.

      The man is good and up there.

      His writing towards "colored" is not colored

      with banal colonialism assertion either.

    2. Yudhvir Singh  07/03/2008 10:40 PM Report

      To V.S. Nightfall,

      As a colored person I strongly disagree with your assessment. Please read him with care, you will be surprised. The man is a genius.