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...meticulously-naturalistic chunks of narrative within which Naipaul describes this island, Roche's message is borne out. The only way to capture this world is to record the numberless pink hazes, scorched and wrinkled hills, red blankets of bauxite dust, and even the stained bedsheets--all changing from moment to moment. And by tirelessly splashing his colors upon human beings, too, Naipaul smears identities in a way that drives home the ambiguity of this place. A British white woman has a color not at all like that "of local white people"; when Peter Roche grins, his pleasant demeanor is destroyed...
GUERRILLAS by V.S. NAIPAUL 248 pages. Knopf...
...first novel in four years, V.S. Naipaul, 43, again proves himself the laureate of the West Indies. As he would admit, that distinction is not without irony. Naipaul once called this locale the "end of the world," and he should know. Born in Trinidad of Indian parents and educated in England, he is a native expatriate with a fine distaste for patriotic rhetoric. In The Loss of El Dorado he outlined the history of his birthplace as a danse macabreof oppressors and oppressed...
Perhaps no one but Naipaul has the inside and outside knowledge to have turned such a dispirited tale into so gripping a book. His island is built entirely of vivid descriptions and offhand dialogue. At the end, it has assumed a political and economic history, a geography and a population of doomed, selfish souls. Partisans of all stripes will argue that Naipaul has maligned their ideologies: not all revolutionary leaders are pathological perverts, not all benevolent whites are deluded do-gooders. These cavils are as irrelevant as they are true. Guerrillas is not a polemic (polemicists will be annoyed...
...Loss of El Dorado, by V.S. Naipaul. A literary re-creation of the his tory of Trinidad, which evokes the terror, avarice and cynicism accompanying the development of the New World...