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All the [Islamic fundamentalist] rejection of the West is contained within the assumption that there will always exist out there a living, creative civilization, oddly neutral, open to all to appeal to. Rejection, therefore, is not absolute rejection. It is also, for the community as a whole, a way of ceasing to strive intellectually. It is to be parasitic; parasitism is one of the unacknowledged fruits of fundamentalism.
-- V. S. Naipaul (Among the Believers) -
๐ช๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐โ๐บ ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ป๐ด: "๐๐ป๐ฑ๐ถ๐ฎ: ๐ ๐ช๐ผ๐๐ป๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐๐ถ๐๐ถ๐น๐ถ๐๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป" ๐ฏ๐ ๐ฉ. ๐ฆ. ๐ก๐ฎ๐ถ๐ฝ๐ฎ๐๐น -
Another too long on the TBR, but Naipaul is nothing if not absorbing!
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๐ง๐๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐ถ๐น๐ฒ: ๐๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ฒ๐บ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ -
It's Spiritual Literacy Month! And some other titles I haven't gotten to this year. . .
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I'd never read any V.S. Naipaul, so I decided to give what is supposed to be his most important work a try.
I didn't love it, even though the writing conveyed the sights, sounds, and smells of twentieth century colonial Trinidad so effectively. I also got more of a feel for the life of the Indian diaspora in the British empire, even though I found the narrative of one member of that diaspora's search for a place of his own amidst career and family troubles less absorbing than I had hoped.
When I had finished, I put "A House for Mr Biswas" aside and felt puzzled. Why does this book enjoy such a stellar reputation?
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GRANTA: In Conversation
Pico Iyer & Caryl PhillipsโThe immigrantโs dream โ that he or she can make a better life for the children โ becomes a kind of tragedy when it comes true.โ
Pico Iyer and Caryl Phillips discuss migration, V. S. Naipaul and the meaning of home.
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