RIP: V.S. Naipul

[Mark Kohut]

I was too stupid to even "get" *A Bend in the River *and *Guerrillas *much.
Such an imperial power baby, I couldn't see past it until.....
* A House for Mr. Biswas* is so moving and such a great human world story.
I loved *The Enigma of Arrival* inordinately and reduce its great
overarching conceit to my parochial uses. I have
used it in actual trivial conversation about its major theme. So there.

*Among the Believers: * tough to feel but a necessary read?

I have always thought, based on nothing, nothing, nothing at all, (but a
lifelong interest in the Nobel Prize; reading books on) that
the supposedly apolitical Swedish Academy, which we know is not, gave the
Prize to him in 2001 because of 9/11.

But I'll never know.

A difficult man to know or be involved with and one to test the limits of
how unsterling qualities have an effect on creative perception. If they do.



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