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...Naipaul said some years ago. The "it," his readers will recognize, is principally the postcolonial world, its tormented past and upheavals that Naipaul has spent most of his career chronicling. It is also what members of the Swedish Academy had in mind when they awarded him this year's Nobel Prize for Literature. Naipaul's novels and reportage have helped shape our perceptions of places we hear about only when they are hit by civil wars and famines. His oblique stories about his journey from obscurity to knighthood suggest how difficult ?it must have been to reinvent himself...
Indifference to the big picture was a shortcoming of Morris' first volume too. Roosevelt was one of the most complicated figures in American history. What should we make of the unblushing imperialist who won the Nobel Peace Prize? Or the economic conservative who attempted to make the Republican Party a friend to the workingman? When this book ends, with Roosevelt turning over the White House to his handpicked successor, William Howard Taft, you can laugh and marvel at what Teddy has done, but Morris has made it hard to evaluate...
...Nobel Unhappiness...
TIME's politically correct opinion that U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan deserved the Nobel Peace Prize is shameful [NOBEL PRIZES, Oct. 22]. The U.N. was founded nearly 60 years ago with a key objective: to reduce war by resolving conflicts between nations peacefully. But the atrocities of war have continued just as before. After more than a half a century, it is high time to rethink an organization that has gone way beyond its trial period. RENE GARDEA Prague...
...bother to note that the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, V.S. Naipaul, is from Trinidad when, as you reported, he has no affinity for his birthplace? I am proud to be from Trinidad and Tobago. I do not romanticize the country, but neither do I denigrate it. Naipaul's attitude shows how well the colonial masters succeeded in their job of brainwashing. I am grateful that for every Naipaul, there is a Trinidadian writer like Earl Lovelace and a calypso musician like David Rudder. SUZETTE DE COTEAU Reading, England