RIP: V.S. Naipul

[Mark Thibodeau]

Wow. Some people. Sheesh.

Jerky

On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 4:03 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
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> I remember this review. Started the novel. Never finished it because life
> and distraction
> https://twitter.com/michikokakutani/status/1028426265957683201
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> https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/aug/11/vs-naipaul-nobel-prize-winning-british-author-dies-aged-85
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> Can one believe that his earliest fiction drew comparisons with Chekhov!
> For his compassionate understanding of regular folk.
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> A simple Naipul profundity worth a lifetime of reflection:
> https://twitter.com/holdengraber/status/1028607627151003648
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> 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:
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>> 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.
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>> Pitiless about it, he was. Nietzschean.
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>> Walcott wasn't alone.
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>> On Sun, Aug 12, 2018 at 3:41 PM Thomas Eckhardt <
>> thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
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>>> I am not familiar with Naipaul's work but know that Derek Walcott never
>>> forgave him for this (about the West Indies):
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>>> "There are no people there in the true sense of the word, with a
>>> character and a purpose of their own."
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>>> "The Middle Passage", 29.
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>>> RIP
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