๐—ช๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐—œโ€™๐—บ ๐—ฅ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด: "๐—œ๐—ป๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ฎ: ๐—” ๐—ช๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—–๐—ถ๐˜ƒ๐—ถ๐—น๐—ถ๐˜‡๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป" ๐—ฏ๐˜† ๐—ฉ. ๐—ฆ. ๐—ก๐—ฎ๐—ถ๐—ฝ๐—ฎ๐˜‚๐—น -

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

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๐—ง๐—•๐—ฅ ๐—ฃ๐—ถ๐—น๐—ฒ: ๐——๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ฒ๐—บ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—ฅ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฑ๐˜€ -

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

โ€žDie einzigen Lรผgen, fรผr die wir wirklich bestraft werden, sind die, die wir uns selbst erzรคhlen.โ€œ

#VSNaipaul #InEinemFreienLand Tod 2018

B. Wordsworth โ€” Las Historias | Alberto Chimal

Un cuento entraรฑable de V. S. Naipaul (1932-2018).

Las Historias

#quotes #vsnaipaul

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

V. S. Naipaul

#quotes #vsnaipaul

Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.

V. S. Naipaul

Literarischer #11August

โ€žThe only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.โ€

#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

Amitav Ghosh on V.S. Naipaul
> .. it is as though Naipaulโ€™s work were a whetstone against which to sharpen my own awareness of the world.. I read everything he wrote, with a close and often combative attention..
> It is a measure of his influence that in the West today, travel writers are taken seriously only to the degree to which they are able to replicate the familiar #Naipaulean tone of derision.
https://amitavghosh.com/other-works-contributions/essays-and-posts/naipaul-and-the-nobel/
#AmitavGhosh #VSNaipaul #NaipaulAndTheNobel #NobelPrize
Naipaul and the Nobel โ€“ Amitav Ghosh