Intense, controversial, unfailingly clever, V. S. Naipaul has won
nearly every major British writing award, including the prestigious
Booker Award (in 1971 for "In a Free State") and in 1990 was
knighted for his literary accomplishments. Born of Indian parents
in Trinidad in 1932, he has little sympathy for the land of his
birth or forefathers. All that he puts under his
microscope--nations, peoples, religions, or ethnic groups--are
targets of his clear-sightedness, and he shows no patience with
pretense or delusions.
This collection brings together interviews from a
thirty-six-year span and reveals a witty, sometimes scathing talker
with a free-ranging curiosity, but one who dreads intimacy and
cherishes a solitary detachment. This collection shows the changing
faces of this world-class author. In early interviews, mostly given
to such fellow writers and colleagues as Derek Walcott and the poet
Eric Roach, Naipaul is clipped, brusque, and clearly impatient with
interviewers. More recent interviews, given primarily to
journalists rather than literary figures, reveal a maturing
Naipaul, often warm, passionate, and forthcoming about his private
life.
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