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On the works of V.S. Naipaul, b. 1932, Trinidadian writer of Indian origin.
India Related Naipaul is a consistent study of Naipaul's art where no controversy can arise, then some controversial points of Naipaul's reading of India and Islam are thoroughly and objectively explored in this work, and some religio-politico doctrines attended to, not exactly attacked in its narrow sense, but brought to their inevitable bearing upon broad based humanity anywhere, and further, perhaps more illuminatingly, Naipaul the man revealed in his writings.
The work deals with Naipual's most controversial subject, his studies of the Muslim world, but curiously in an uncontroversial neutral academic spirit that reveals exactly what impartial dispassionate judgment can. Reveals the author naipaul is, his human responses as a man as well as the world he studies. The treatment in the work is entertaining, at the same time enlightening.
The present book is a grateful acknowledgement of the contribution of D.H. Lawrence in the arena of literature during the twentieth century. A renowned novelist, poet and critic, the essential Lawrence is solidified in the four related novels, three in quick succession, the fourth flung far late, though no damage done to the running linkage thereby. These four works--Sons and Lovers, a faithful autobiographical account of Lawrence's early years; The Rainbow, a ...