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...LOSS OF EL DORADO by V.S. Naipaul. 335 pages. Knopf...
...ever found El Dorado. And Raleigh's dream of a New World foundered on the crass realities of exploitation. After Raleigh, Novelist V.S. Naipaul writes, in this extraordinary evocative re-creation of the history of his native Trinidad: "The ships from Europe came and went. The plantations grew. The brazilwood, felled by slaves in the New World, was rasped [the bark scraped off] by criminals in the rasp houses of Amsterdam. The New World as medieval adventure ended; it had become a cynical extension of the developing old world, its commercial underside...
...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...
...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...