Vs Naipaul Critical Essays Vol 3

V.S. Naipaul has claimed that all his owkr is really one and he has been writng one big book all these years; also, considering the world he has stepped into and the world he has to look at, he cannot be a professional novelist in the old sense. In his early youth Naipul took up the vocation of a writer as his religion and, since the beginning five decades ago, has drawn on his intensely personal experience of an uprooted person adrift in the world, his experience of the two worlds to none of which he could really belong-an experience that imparts the authentic voice to his works-both non-fiction and fiction-enriched by a distinct autobiographical flavour. Naipaul himself is split into his characters in whom are manifested subtle shades of his emotions and traits. he is 'accidental man'dangling man history man and the mimic man all rolled into one.
About Author :
Mohit K. Ray a full professor since 1982, is one of the seniormost Professors of English in the country. He has to his credit three books and a large number of research papers published in scholarly journals in India and abroad, which reflect his wide range of scholarship including Criticism, Comparative Literature, New Literatures, Canonical Literature, Comparative Poetics and Translation Studies Professor Ray has attended and chaired sessions as an invited participant in many International conferences, seminars, and colloquia held in different parts of the globe-England, France, Portugal, Austrai, Finland, Estonia, America, Canada, Japan, Hong Kong etc. Professor Ray has studied several languages including Latin, Sanskrit, Arabic, French, German, etc.
Contents :
Preface On Naipaul The Presentation Speech The World, the Text, and the Caribbean Writer A House for Mr. Biswas Search for Identity: Ideology and Social Conflict in V.S.Naipaul's a House for Mr. biswas Identity Crisis in V.S. Naipaul's A House for Mr Biswas Alienation and Home: A Study of a House for Mr Biswas V.S. Naipaul's A House for Mr. Biswas: An Autobiographical Study Naipaul's A House for Mr. Biswas, Arun Joshi's The Strange case of Billi Biswas and Mordecai Richler's Son of a Smaller Hero: A Critique of Paradox of Life Shock, Derisionand Satire in V.s. Naipaul's An Area of Darkness A Million Mutinies in the Domain of Darkness But why call it a Nvoel?: Varieties of Transgression in V.S. Naipaul's The Enigma of Arrival V.S. Naipaul's Ironic Visions the Post-Colonial Confusion and V.S. Naipaul Trajectory of Displacement: Expatriate Sensibility of V.S. Naipaul A Journey of Rejection: V.S. Naipaul's The Mimic Men V.S. Naipaul's Half a Life: Memory and the Myth of Origin V.S. Naipaul's Half a Life: A Critical Study V.S. Naipaul's Half a Life: The Colonial Context and Some Postcolonial Issues Disorientation of Identity in V.S. Naipaul's Half a Life Half a Life: A Reading in Sense, Sensibility and Snesuality V.S. Naipaul's Half a Life: A World of Cultural Neurasthenia sans Therapy Naipaul as a Short Story Writer A Critical Examination of the Sense of Detachment in the Selected Fictions and Short Fictions of Naipaul Contributors