Volume 46, Number 4 · March 4, 1999
The Writer and India
By V.S. Naipaul
In concluding the first part of this article in the February 18 issue, V.S. Naipaul wrote, in part: 'As a child trying to read, Ihad felt that two worlds separated me from the books that were offered to me at school and in the libraries: the childhood world of our remembered India, and the more colonial world of our city…. What I didn't know, even after I had written my early books of fiction, concerned only with story and people and getting to the end and mounting the jokes well, was that these two spheres of darkness had become my subject.'
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