Preparation for Session 8:
As always, please read the press release, the Nobel Lecture as well as the short bio of the author on the Nobel Prize Website.
Read one of the following introductory texts on V.S. Naipaul and his ouevre:
- Nixon, Rob. London Calling : V. S. Naipaul, Postcolonial Mandarin, Oxford University Press, 1992. (Introduction, pp. 3-16)
- Mustafa, Fawzia. V. S. Naipaul, Cambridge
University Press, 1995. (Introduction, pp. 1–29)
We will concentrate on V.S. Naipaul's The Enigma of Arrival (1987).
Also see the part on V.S. Naipaul in Hallengren, Anders, and Andres Hallengren. Nobel Laureates In Search Of Identity And Integrity: Voices
Of Different Cultures, World Scientific Publishing Company, 2005.
