English Literature / Unit 18 ENL 1711 short lesson, about 20 seconds
V. S. Naipaul
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The idea
V. S. Naipaul, a Trinidad-born British writer who died in two thousand eighteen, wrote comic early novels set in Trinidad, bleaker novels of alienation and travel chronicles. His breakthrough novel A House for Mr Biswas appeared in nineteen sixty-one.
In practice
Trinidad, alienation, travel.
Where people slip
Naipaul was Trinidad-born of Indian descent.
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