Ordeal And Evolution of Naipaul-The Author
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V.S. Naipaul, OrdealAbstract
The title, The Ordeal and Evolution of Naipaul, appears to allude to the struggles and successes that the renowned novelist, V.S. Naipaul, through throughout his life and his writing career. According to Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, better known by his pen as V.S. Naipaul, was a British author of Indian ancestry who was born in Trinidad. One of the most significant and divisive authors of the twentieth century. The intricate relationships between conquerors and colonised are a common topic in Naipaul's writing. He explores the nuances of postcolonial cultures and the difficulties experienced by people who are trapped between contrasting social, cultural, and historical eras. The word ordeal may be used to describe the difficulties and hardships that Naipaul overcame throughout his lifetime. His early works reflect the worldview he had as a child growing up in Trinidad, a country where Indian and Western cultures coexisted. Naipaul's investigation of identity and cultural displacement is informed by his position as an outsider and a person of Indian heritage in a largely Afro-Caribbean community. Naipaul's career as a writer is analogous to a process of evolution, since his writing style and subject matter developed through time. A House for Mr. Biswas and The Mystic Masseur are two of his first works, and they both focus on the hardships faced by people living in colonial civilizations. Postcolonialism, globalisation, and the collision of cultures are just a few of the topics that Naipaul tackled in his later, more politically and socially active works. Naipaul's writing style might be considered abstract because of the dispassionate and objective tone he often uses in his narratives. His writing is generally characterised by a severe and unsentimental perspective of the world, although he is noted for the clarity and depth of his descriptions. Naipaul's writing may be difficult and intricate, requiring the reader to wrestle with the author's esoteric concepts and topics.
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^ Naipaul 1987, p. 352.
^ Jump up to:a b c Hayward 2002, p. 5.
^ French 2008, p. 18b:There was talk of him (Seepersad) becoming a pundit, and he learned some Sanskrit. Soookdeo Misir, ... gave him a basic education. ... by the time he was in his late teens, he had escaped from the likely future as an agricultural labourer in the grim depths of the rural Indian community. He had taught himself how to read and write English, and had conceived the idea of becoming a journalist, a profession that was usually open to Whites and Negroes.
^ French 2008, p. 19: In 1929, the year of his marriage, Seepersad began work as a freelance reporter on the Trinidad Guardian, ...
^ Hayward 2002, p. 7.
^ French 2008, pp. 36–37: Vido spent much of his time at Petit Valley with Pa, who would read to him and sometimes to other children: extracts from Julius Caesar, Nicholas Nickleby, Three Men in a Boat, ... Pa and Vido positioned themselves in an ordered fantasy world derived from European literature ... Aspiration and ambition became the alternative to daily life ... 9
^ Jump up to:a b French 2008, p. 12.
^ Visaria & Visaria 1983, p. 515,a: Quote: A majority of the emigrants were from rural areas and from 'overcrowded agricultural districts' where 'crop failure could plunge sections of the village community into near-starvation'. In fact, there was a strong correlation between emigration and harvest conditions. Acute scarcity during 1873–5 in Bihar, Oudh and the North-Western Provinces provoked large-scale emigration through the port of Calcutta. The famine in south India during 1874–8 also resulted in heavy emigration.
