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A House for Mr Biswas was published during the ill-fated West Indies Federation, a year before Trinidad and Tobago became an independent nation, but set in the earlier years of the twentieth century. Naipaul’s portrait of Trinidad thus reflects a post-slavery colonial society in the midst of an economic and social transition toward the postcolonial state.
6 mar 2024 · This chapter analyses various stylistic features which contribute to the discursive construction of the tragic in V.S. Naipaul’s A House for Mr Biswas.While not arguing for the explicit placement of the novel within the genre of “tragedy” itself, this chapter contends that a recurrent focus on physical suffering/illness and a teleological preoccupation with ruin and loss nonetheless ...
Two radically different novelistic traditions have influenced A House for Mr Biswas: the nineteenth-century English social novel, with its focus on an individual life story amid a large cast of ...
24 nov 1983 · V.S. Naipaul. November 24, 1983 issue. Of all my books A House for Mr. Biswas is the one closest to me. It is the most personal, created out of what I saw and felt as a child. It also contains, I believe, some of my funniest writing. I began as a comic writer and still consider myself one. In middle age now, I have no higher literary ambition ...
28 gen 2000 · At the same time, the book provides a fascinating map to the autobiographical underpinnings of what is arguably Mr. Naipaul's finest novel, ''A House for Mr. Biswas'' (1961), which created a ...
20 ott 2010 · A heartrending, dark comedy of manners, A House for Mr. Biswas masterfully evokes a man?s quest for autonomy against an emblematic post-colonial canvas. From the Back Cover The early masterpiece of V. S. Naipaul's brilliant career, A House for Mr. Biswas" is an unforgettable story inspired by Naipaul's father that has been hailed as one of the twentieth century's finest novels.
His novels include A House for Mr Biswas, The Mimic Men, Guerrillas, A Bend in the River, and The Enigma of Arrival. In 1971 he was awarded the Booker Prize for In a Free State . His works of nonfiction, equally acclaimed, include Among the Believers , Beyond Belief , The Masque of Africa , and a trio of books about India: An Area of Darkness , India: A Wounded Civilization and India: A ...
