RIP: V.S. Naipul

[Mark Kohut]

I think this is a fine overarching appreciation. He is one who could be
read and reread to create deeply new perceptions of life and writing.
Create, partially, a new mind in one.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/aug/12/vs-naipaul-obituary

On Sun, Aug 12, 2018 at 1:01 PM Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> >>
> >> https://twitter.com/IftikharFirdous/status/1028553185630281728
> >>
> >> http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/master-of-antipathies/1028902/
> >>
> >> https://twitter.com/ddunsky/status/580054777016520705
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