Word: naipaul
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John Perse (Seamarks) was born on an islet off Guadeloupe. Edgar Mittelholzer (Shadows Move Among Them) came from British Guiana. V. S. Naipaul (A House for Mr. Biswas) grew up in Trinidad. George Lamming (In the Castle of My Skin) is a Barbadian. In the last generation, a torrent of literary talent has come surging out of the Caribbean like a Gulf Stream of the spirit. In the new generation, the stream has been strengthened by a number of remarkable young writers-among them an important lyric poet (Derek Walcott), an insightful critic (L. E. Brathwaite) and dozens of gifted...
...series of deals, a year-old Chevrolet Impala imported by a diplomat for $1,680 was ultimately bought by a Bombay movie star for $16,800. Import restrictions have made any foreign item desirable, including electric mixers, irons, refrigerators, hair dryers and record players. West Indian Author V. S. Naipaul, visiting India for the first time, records in his book Area of Darkness the xenophile plaint of a Delhi housewife: "I am just craze for foreign, just craze for foreign...
...AREA OF DARKNESS by V. S. Naipaul. 281 pages. Macmillan...
...railway tracks ... on the beaches ... on the river banks . . . on the streets ... on floors. . . . These squatting figures are never spoken of; they are never written about. The truth is that Indians do not see these squatters and might even, with complete sincerity, deny that they exist." Trinidad-born Novelist Naipaul, paying a first visit to the land of his Hindu grandfather, is determined not to avert his eyes from such sights, which tourists and the Indians themselves ignore or miss. He observes "the ceremonial washing of the genitals in public before prayers." He ponders four sweepers whose ritual effort only...
...Novelist Naipaul takes as his hero a 62-year-old bachelor, Mr. Stone, head librarian in a commercial firm, who treasures all the "uncreative years" of his life "comfortingly stacked away in his mind." But one day, sitting in the pub at lunchtime sipping his glass of Guinness, he becomes aware of a "new sensation of threat, nagging him at last into an awareness of his own acute unhappiness." He looks in a.shop window on the way home and sees the reflection of an old man. In terror, he marries a widow and commences his life...