I hate the "great author, awful human being" formulation. These are not separate things; the terms of Naipaul's canonization as "great" were precisely the set of ideological positions that made his work conducive to the powers that were during his lifetime.
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Yeah, it's not a universally held way of thinking about it. But I don't want art that rests on dehumanization, and his does, constantly. Which is more than "wrong," on some level; it's sort of *obscene.*
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