![]() ![]() ![]() Certainly, it won’t be possible to keep alive the idea of his gift for very long if he was just an agglomeration of blind spots and hostile prejudices. His achievement has to be the writing itself: time will tell us if this true. I think this part of Naipaul’s contribution was overplayed, both by those who couldn’t abide him and by himself. Naipaul’s discomfiting assertions – about Islam, about women, about countries less fortunate than the one he lived and died in (especially the Trinidad of his birth, Africa, and to some extent, India) – are often unjustified, unpleasant and untrue, though he insisted that, despite their unpleasantness, they possessed the unflinching quality of truth. The reasons for turning away from Naipaul the writer are related to how his writing expressed his humanity – or lack of it.
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