Volume 2, Number 3 · March 19, 1964
London Again
By Walter Allen
Mr. Stone and the Knights Companion
by V.S. Naipaul
Macmillan, 160 pp., $3.50
Mr. Stone and the Knights Companion strikes one as being very much an interim novel. Together with a quite dissimilar novelist, George Lamming, V. S. Naipaul is one of the two best novelists to have emerged from the British Caribbean lands. His theme in his earlier books has been the comedy of multiracial society in Trinidad, and, like this new novel, they have been mainly short, the exception being his last book but one, A House for Mr. Biswas, where for the first time one saw him working on an extended scale, tracing in almost Edwardian detail the history of a family through three generations.
Review, 848 words
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