V.S. Naipaul is one of the best known English novelists of the modern times; his popularity reached its zenith when he received the Nobel Prize for literature, last year. He is regarded a prophet, a soothsayer, a doom-watcher and a teller of unpalatable truths. While he has published several works, it is A House for Mr. Biswas that has given him name and fame. His latest novel, Half a Life, is a piece of literary craftsmanship. The present volume, a collection of recent essays on his writings, aims at paying the fittest literary tribute to Naipaul, the novelist.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Suman Bala
Suman Bala teaches English at Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, University of Delhi. She obtained M.Phil. in Comparative Literature and Ph.D. on the fiction of Joseph Conrad. In 1984, she visited Edinburgh University and other universities in the U.K. as a British Council scholar. She has presented papers at national and international conferences, including those at Sri Lanka, Kuala Lumpur and Canberra. She has published books, namely, Joseph Conrad's Fiction' A Study in Existential Vision; Silver Poets: Wyatt, Surrey, Sidney and Ralegh; American Literature Today and Women in the Novels of Shashi Deshpande. She is President of Asian Association for the Study of Austral-Asia.
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