𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜’𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮: 𝗔 𝗪𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗖𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻" 𝗯𝘆 𝗩. 𝗦. 𝗡𝗮𝗶𝗽𝗮𝘂𝗹 -

Another too long on the TBR, but Naipaul is nothing if not absorbing!

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𝗧𝗕𝗥 𝗣𝗶𝗹𝗲: 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀 -

It's Spiritual Literacy Month! And some other titles I haven't gotten to this year. . .

#books #literature #bookreviews #bookworm #tbrpile #tbrlist #dierdrekessler #paultillich #thecouragetobe #jackkornfield #buddhaslittleinstructionbook #rosamundstonezander #theartofpossibility #hermannhesse #trees #daytripper #fabiomoon #gabrielba #vsnaipaul #indiaawoundedcivilization #gilasher #epistemicfriction

I'd never read any V.S. Naipaul, so I decided to give what is supposed to be his most important work a try.

I didn't love it, even though the writing conveyed the sights, sounds, and smells of twentieth century colonial Trinidad so effectively. I also got more of a feel for the life of the Indian diaspora in the British empire, even though I found the narrative of one member of that diaspora's search for a place of his own amidst career and family troubles less absorbing than I had hoped.

When I had finished, I put "A House for Mr Biswas" aside and felt puzzled. Why does this book enjoy such a stellar reputation?

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#LiteratureInEnglish #Trinidad

Literarischer #11August

„Die einzigen Lügen, für die wir wirklich bestraft werden, sind die, die wir uns selbst erzählen.“

#VSNaipaul #InEinemFreienLand Tod 2018

"B. Wordsworth", un #cuento de V. S. #Naipaul en #LasHistorias.

https://www.lashistorias.com.mx/index.php/b-wordsworth-naipaul-cuento/

#literatura #realismo #VSNaipaul #escritores #literaverso

#quotes #vsnaipaul

One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas — and you have to work through it all.

V. S. Naipaul

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Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.

V. S. Naipaul

Literarischer #11August

„The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.”

#VSNaipaul #InAFreeState Tod 2018

> ... writers must be judged by their 'writing alone.
> How exactly this is to be done is not clear...
> To believe that good writing overrides bad politics to create Literature [like] viewing the writer as a precocious child with a knack. Both beliefs want to keep literature and politics safely apart...

https://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1983&context=kunapipi

#GithaHarihara on #VSNaipaul #NaipaulsNobel #WritersAndPolitics #ArundhatiRoy