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Nothing of the sort will happen, of course, and Naipaul never suggests otherwise. He concentrates instead on the ways his three main Shiva Naipaul characters find to defend themselves against intractable reality...
LOVE AND DEATH IN A HOT COUNTRY by Shiva Naipaul Viking; 185 pages...
Futility does not, as a rule, breed much suspense. And Trinidad-born Author Shiva Naipaul, 39, leaves little room to imagine that life in Cuyama will do anything but grow progressively worse. The interesting question in this novel, Naipaul's third, is not whether Aubrey's idealism will founder but what forms his disillusionment will take. Faced with a failing business and marriage, the hero hurls himself into the struggle to save the constitution...
Where V.S. Naipaul is a universalist, drawing parallels among the people he sees, Shiva Naipaul is a defensive separatist. This sense of separation stems in part from the nature of a travelogue, which forces him to keep a distance from his subjects. For hi, sanity only exists in the industrialized West--i.e., England. The nightmare only begins when one boards the flight to Africa...
Both Naipaul brothers see Africa through Conrad's eyes--as a ruined land where logic is an anomaly and men become corrupted. But for V.S. Naipaul, the entire world is a senseless, despondent morass. For Shiva, civilization and Mistah Kurtz are only dead in Africa...