RIP: V.S. Naipul

[Keith Davis]

A Bend in the River is really good. David, your comments apply here, as well.

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> On Aug 12, 2018, at 12:03 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>> From: Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
>> Date: Sun, Aug 12, 2018 at 5:58 AM
>> Subject:
>> To: Me at G <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
>> 
>> 
>> https://twitter.com/LRB/status/1028578442852347909
>> 
>> https://twitter.com/dabeard/status/1028578432630829056
>> 
>> https://twitter.com/alvaredi/status/1028408702737567746
>> 
>> 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/
>> 
>> https://twitter.com/ddunsky/status/580054777016520705
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