RIP: V.S. Naipul

[David Morris]

I've read only some of his short stories and some of "Beyond Belief."  And
the movie "Disgrace" was masterful.  His tone strikes me as very dry,
portraying horror with calm, not acceptance, but almost a clinical
portrayal.

David Morris

On Sun, Aug 12, 2018 at 5:23 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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> 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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