RIP: V.S. Naipul

[Mark Kohut]

This first below is moving. See Rushdie inside it as well.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/12/opinion/vs-naipaul-my-wonderful-cruel-friend.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytopinion

I remember this review. Started the novel. Never finished it because life
and distraction
https://twitter.com/michikokakutani/status/1028426265957683201

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/aug/11/vs-naipaul-nobel-prize-winning-british-author-dies-aged-85

Can one believe that his earliest fiction drew comparisons with Chekhov!
For his compassionate understanding of regular folk.

A simple Naipul profundity worth a lifetime of reflection:
https://twitter.com/holdengraber/status/1028607627151003648

And a not untypical (albeit over the top), very angry female writer about
him:

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   Breaking my Twitter fast to observe that VS Naipul was a vile, racist,
   misogynist, bag of festering putrescence, who inflated himself by torturing
   women and dehumanizing Black people. The world smells cleaner today, on the
   heels of his long~overdue departure. #*Naipul*
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   Stop calling men writers brilliant, important, or even useful, when
   they're incapable of seeing most of humanity as human. And incapable of
   writing without brutalizing those they categorize as sub~human. #*Naipul*
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On Sun, Aug 12, 2018 at 3:49 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>>
>