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"The new religions, Islam and Christianity, are just on the top," says a classic Naipaul informant, a lawyer and former university dean in Gabon; his punchline is a perfect short Naipaulian thematic sentence: "Inside us is the forest."
Christopher Lydon: V. S. Naipaul's "Gloomy Clarity" About Africa and Himself (AUDIO) Christopher Lydon 2010
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"The new religions, Islam and Christianity, are just on the top," says a classic Naipaul informant, a lawyer and former university dean in Gabon; his punchline is a perfect short Naipaulian thematic sentence: "Inside us is the forest."
Christopher Lydon: V. S. Naipaul's "Gloomy Clarity" About Africa and Himself (AUDIO) Christopher Lydon 2010
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"The new religions, Islam and Christianity, are just on the top," says a classic Naipaul informant, a lawyer and former university dean in Gabon; his punchline is a perfect short Naipaulian thematic sentence: "Inside us is the forest."
Christopher Lydon: V. S. Naipaul's "Gloomy Clarity" About Africa and Himself (AUDIO) Christopher Lydon 2010
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"The new religions, Islam and Christianity, are just on the top," says a classic Naipaul informant, a lawyer and former university dean in Gabon; his punchline is a perfect short Naipaulian thematic sentence: "Inside us is the forest."
Christopher Lydon: V. S. Naipaul's "Gloomy Clarity" about Africa and Himself (AUDIO) Christopher Lydon 2010
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As our storyteller gradually becomes an accomplice in Baby's comic, Naipaulian "scampery," the duo's roguish stunts stand in for the country's political and racial exploitations.
Cheeshahteaumauk, Class of '65 (1665) Sam Sacks 2011
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"The new religions, Islam and Christianity, are just on the top," says a classic Naipaul informant, a lawyer and former university dean in Gabon; his punchline is a perfect short Naipaulian thematic sentence: "Inside us is the forest."
Christopher Lydon: V. S. Naipaul's "Gloomy Clarity" About Africa and Himself (AUDIO) Christopher Lydon 2010
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James Wood is perfectly entitled to elevate Naipaulian realism and denigrate Pynchonian anti-realism (if that's what he wants to call them -- I don't think either term does either writer much justice).
Realism in Fiction 2008
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And, in a most un-Naipaulian way, the writing slackens - there's a sprinkling of clichés: "shot his bolt",
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These glimpses of the old Naipaulian rigour are rare, however.
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But this is nothing new - this is a feature of the Naipaulian mask - and in the past this brazen refusal to self-censor added to his books' powerful frisson and bleak insight.
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