The Unflinching Gaze of V.S. Naipaul; Seconds Thoughts on His Work of Three Decades

From: The Washington Post | Date: April 12, 1989| Author: | Copyright information

V.S. Naipaul has never been one to mince words or embrace a gooey sentiment. "Never give a person a second chance," he has said. "If someone lets you down once, he'll do it again." And: "I'm not concerned in preserving the backward races. I find them very boring." And: "It is well that Indians are unable to look at their country directly, for the distress they would see would drive them mad."

Over the last three decades, Naipaul's caustic reports on the "half-made" developing societies have earned him the rage of left-wing intellectuals-and a wide audience for his 11 books of fiction and ...

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