RIP: V.S. Naipul

[Mark Kohut]

The fierceness of his own self-creation made him see this all over the
place, I suggest.
 That's the meaning of Mimic Men, broadly,
whole countries of men who had no character or purpose of their own, I
extrapolate.

Pitiless about it, he was. Nietzschean.

Walcott wasn't alone.

On Sun, Aug 12, 2018 at 3:41 PM Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>
wrote:

> I am not familiar with Naipaul's work but know that Derek Walcott never
> forgave him for this (about the West Indies):
>
> "There are no people there in the true sense of the word, with a
> character and a purpose of their own."
>
> "The Middle Passage", 29.
>
> RIP
>