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Raised in Trinidad, V.S. Naipaul has written extensively about the enduring economic, cultural, and psychological effects of colonialism, particularly its assaults on individual identity. This literary biography examines Naipaul's political essays, travel narratives, history, and journalism as well as his works of fiction and describes Naipaul's methods for discovering the truth about himself and the world he explores. Feder is a scholar of English, classics, and comparative literature (emerita, City University of New York). Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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V.S. Naipaul once described his purpose as an author as nothing less than a "commitment to deliver the truth." One of the world's greatest, and most controversial, living writers, he has written extensively about the enduring economic, cultural, and psychological effects of colonialism, particularly its assaults on individual identity. In Naipaul's Truth, Lillian Feder, noted author of several classic works of literary criticism, explores Naipaul's writings to deliver an original and beautifully written analysis of her subject. Feder describes Naipaul's methods for discovering the truth about himself and the world he explores, and she concludes that Naipaul's literature has rightfully earned a place in the upper echelons of the modern canon. Simultaneously an intellectual biography and a revealing psychological portrait of the artist, Naipaul's Truth is a masterpiece of literary biography.
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