Commonwealth Literature and the Modern WorldHena Maes-Jelinek Published under the sponsorship of the Revue des Langues Vivantes, 1975 - Commonwealth literature (English) - 181 pages |
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Hena Maes-Jelinek. V. S. NAIPAUL'S FREE STATEMENT Alastair Niven I remember commenting after I had read The Mimic Men a few years ago that I doubted if V. S. Naipaul could write another novel . He seemed to have advanced to a point of ...
Hena Maes-Jelinek. V. S. NAIPAUL'S FREE STATEMENT Alastair Niven I remember commenting after I had read The Mimic Men a few years ago that I doubted if V. S. Naipaul could write another novel . He seemed to have advanced to a point of ...
Page 70
... Naipaul writes about a trip he had made to India to seek some sense of personal identification with his ancestors ' country he cannot overcome the sheer nausea he feels at the pervading smells wherever he goes or his horror at seeing ...
... Naipaul writes about a trip he had made to India to seek some sense of personal identification with his ancestors ' country he cannot overcome the sheer nausea he feels at the pervading smells wherever he goes or his horror at seeing ...
Page 77
... Naipaul is straying into territory already fully charted by Somerset Maugham , the most famous recorder of adulterous affairs in colonial society . Naipaul himself mentions Maugham in the story , but his own writing is altogether ...
... Naipaul is straying into territory already fully charted by Somerset Maugham , the most famous recorder of adulterous affairs in colonial society . Naipaul himself mentions Maugham in the story , but his own writing is altogether ...
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