Subject: Re: V.S.Naipaul
From: Jim Rovira (jrovira@drew.edu)
Date: Mon Nov 05 2001 - 09:23:26 GMT
Thanks for posting that. I've read very little Naipaul myself -- just
parts of his collection of letters, _Between Father and Son_.
To be honest, it wasn't pretty :) But it was interesting that even at a
very young age he had some sense of his own literary future.
Jim
Scottie Bowman wrote:
>
> We're all writers in this company, of course, & fascinated, I'm sure,
> in the thought processes of our elders & betters. I'm passing on
> a signal which may be of interest from one of my friends on
> the Hemingway list in tribute to V.S.Naipaul, the latest Nobel
> laureate.
>
> I was a little disappointed that his award seems to have gone wholly
> unremarked by all you transatlantic connoisseurs. He's a great
> man whose lovely, cool (& often hilarious) prose you can hear echoed
> to some extent in his speaking voice in this broadcast extract.
> __________________________
>
> My friend writes:
>
> This morning NPR's Weekend Edition - Sunday had an interesting
> short interview (in RealAudio) with Nobel Prize winner VS Naipaul.
> It includes brief references to Hemingway by the interviewer and
> Naipaul. What really struck me, though, was what VSN said about
> how he writes and who his models were.
>
> http://www.npr.org/programs/wesun/
>
> Click on "Experience by segment" and then go to the last entry on
> the new page, "Half a Life," (the title of his new novel).
> ____________________________
>
> Scottie B.
>
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