V.S. Naipaul 1932-2018. A powerful novelist who at his best (A House for Mr. Biswas, Bend in the River) approached Conrad and even the shadow of Dickens. Of the man himself, it's perhaps best to remain silent.
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This has been another episode of "Jeet explains 20th century literature to a 7 year old."
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“He was both and bad” feels like a telling Twitterian slip.
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Yeah, I meant to write, "he was both good and bad."
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He'd be apoplectic reading his own obits, which will undoubtedly begin, "VS Naipaul was born in Trinidad..." His hatred for the land of his birth was only one, but perhaps the most bizarre, of the black marks on his character.
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He wrote wonderfully about Africa... hmmm ... I always found him a wee bit racist towards blacks. That said he wrote one of my favourite books, Miguel Street. Brilliant book.
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He hated kids too...
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