V.S. Naipaul [Paperback]

V. S. Naipaulis a reader-friendly introduction to the writing of one of the most influential contemporary authors and the 2001 Nobel laureate in Literature. Bruce King provides a novel by novel analysis of the fiction with attention to structure, significance, and Naipaul's development as a writer, while setting the texts in their autobiographical. philosophical, social, political, colonial and postcolonial contexts. King shows how Naipaul modified Western and Indian literary traditions for the West Indies and then the wider world to become an international writer whose subject matter includes the Caribbean, England, India, Africa, the United States, Argentina, and contemporary Islam.

Thoroughly revised and updated, the second edition ofV. S. Naipaulnow includes an expanded Introduction, and discussion of his most recent novelsA Way in the WorldandHalf a Life, his Nobel Lecture, Naipaul's writings on Islam, and a survey of the main criticism by other writers and postcolonial theorists.

BRUCE KING, now a freelance writer and a leading international literary critic, was professor of English and has taught in universities in England, France, Nigeria, Canada, Israel, New Zealand and the United States. His publications include Modern Indian Poetry in English, second edition (Oxford, 2001) and Derek Walcott: A Caribbean Life (Oxford, 2000). He is series editor for Literature, Culture and Identity (Continuum), English Dramatists and Modern Dramatists (both Palgrave Macmillan).

Preface
Introduction
Miguel Street, The Mystic Masseur, and The Suffrage of Elvira
A House for Mr Biswas and The Middle Passage
Mr Stone and the Knights Companion and An Area of Darkness
A Flag on the Island, The Mimic Men, and The Loss of El Dorado
In a Free State
The Overcrowded Baracoon, 'Michael X', Guerrillas and India: A Wounded Civilization
'A New King for the Congo' and A Bend in the River
Finding the Centre, The Enigmalc$