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...novel's catchy title, aptly describing the burden of the plot, derives from a volume of Balzac containing Ursule Mirouet wheedled out of the hidden cache of a fellow re-educatee in a nearby village. The book becomes as cherished as any work of Dickens in Waugh's A Handful of Dust. For when Luo reads and then retells the story to a dazzling but illiterate Chinese seamstress, she falls in idyllic love with both him and Balzac. Youthful passions reign, and the lovers and the narrator find themselves beset with the ultimate woe of literary teenage coupling: pregnancy...
...bring to bear his formidable powers as a literary man and journalist. The two disciplines are indistinguishable in Half a Life. But there are clear influences. Naipaul's India could be a setting in an R.K. Nayaran story. His Africa is as baleful as Conrad's and his London Waugh-like. Here, for example, is a man-about-town explaining how to ensure a successful dinner party: "I'm asking the poet and his wife only for the nosegay effect. A little bit of dead fern, to set the whole thing off." There are moments in this book-of-many...
...nicer ironies of postcolonial English writing that the most evident heir to that great and fearsome archconservative Evelyn Waugh, who famously despised every civilization that had not been subjugated by Rome, should be from the Caribbean. Naipaul is also one of the very few writers to have a whole, book-length cruise missile of a memoir fired at him by a fellow writer. In 1998 Paul Theroux, in a striking fit of Oedipal peevishness, published Sir Vidia's Shadow, painting his former friend and mentor as a self-obsessed, avaricious, pathologically snobbish brute. Perhaps...
...TIME.com spoke with Professor Waugh on Friday morning about what the warnings mean - and how we should respond to them...
...William Waugh: Well, it could probably be argued that we?ve been on alert since September 11th, so I?m not really sure this warning has changed anything. All of our emergency response teams were already on highest alert before the warning, and I don?t think there?s any way to ramp up from there...