Some thoughts on the death of VS Naipaul. https://newrepublic.com/minutes/150623/vs-naipaul-towering-writer-deeply-flawed-man-dead …
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Naipaul's gloom, rage & violence always had a strong element of self-hatred.
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The literary society Naipaul struggled to join was rancid. "That clever little n***** Naipaul has won another literary prize," Evelyn Waugh complained in early 1960s. "Oh for a black face." Naipaul would turn around and apply the same language to black writers.
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Failed to add in my previous tweet, that he was a POS. Doesn't matter that he died, truth is more important. Lastly, I would like to add, that I did not enjoy his style of writing.
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