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...Naipaul's new book, A Way in the World, chapters based on the author's life precede chapters about Sir Walter Raleigh and Francisco de Miranda, the failed 19th century Venezuelan revolutionary. When published first in England, the work was subtitled A Sequence. The U.S. edition (Knopf; 380 pages; $23) has been redesignated A Novel. Why not? Border disputes between fiction and nonfiction grow drearier, while writers keep declaring their independence with new ways of telling their stories. Besides, calling Naipaul's 23rd book a novel is easier than calling it what it is: a patterning of autobiographical and historical...
...Naipaul is an artful arranger. His technique is to layer memory and history so that the past is an iridescence that colors the present. Layering also evokes our identities or, as Naipaul puts it, "In our blood and bone and brain we carry the memories of thousands of beings...
Verbally randy Updike also blends styles: realism with surrealism, and journalism with sentimentalism. Some of the best parts are simply missionary- position travel writing. But stabs at social and cultural commentary frequently sound like V.S. Naipaul on a slow...
...have read these books four or five times each, plus a whole lot of other things--Maupassant in English and Russian authors. You know, whoever I could lay my hands on. I think two books which I read later in my life which might have had an influence are Naipaul's House For Mr. Biswas and Catch-22 by Joseph Heller...
...will be reading about it. And that doesn't mean it precludes a lot of other communities who enjoy that writing too. And I think slowly, India, too is gaining favor and popularity. It started perhaps with Rushdie and before Rushdie with Anita Desai before that with Narayan and Naipaul, Raja Rao, so there has been an interest because these have been great, great writers. So this is not something new. Vikram Seth has come out with a very bubbly, very effervescent novel and it's wonderful that people from the subcontinent are being read. And I am particularly pleased...