RIP: V.S. Naipul

[Mark Thibodeau]

Biswas certainly has a magical quality. I remember reading it in my
Post-Colonial English Lit class, alongside other masterpieces like
Voss and Midnight's Children and Things Fall Apart. Man... what a
class.

Jerky

On Sun, Aug 12, 2018 at 6:23 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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> Date: Sun, Aug 12, 2018 at 5:58 AM
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> https://twitter.com/LRB/status/1028578442852347909
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> https://twitter.com/dabeard/status/1028578432630829056
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> https://twitter.com/alvaredi/status/1028408702737567746
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> https://twitter.com/DavidLammy/status/1028569671690321921
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> https://twitter.com/IftikharFirdous/status/1028553185630281728
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> http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/master-of-antipathies/1028902/
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> https://twitter.com/ddunsky/status/580054777016520705
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