Feroza Jussawalla

> Babelio : https://www.babelio.com/livres/Naipaul-Pour-en-finir-avec-vos-mensonges--Sir-Vid...
> BAnQ (Homel D., La presse, 26 mai 2002) : https://collections.banq.qc.ca/ark:/52327/2194615
> BAnQ (Major A., Le devoir, 10 août 2002) : https://collections.banq.qc.ca/ark:/52327/2809065

> BIBLIOGRAPHIE :
- Guérilleros, Éditions 10/18, n» 2682.
- Sacrifices, Albin Michel, 1984.
- L'Énigme de l’arrivée, Éditions 10/18, n“ 2282.
- Le Masseur mystique, Fditions 10/18, n" 2468.
- Miguel Street, Editions 10/18, n" 2530.
- Une maison pour M. Biswas, Collection L’Imaginaire, Gallimard, 1985.
- À la courbe du fleuve, IJvre de poche, n“ 5879.
- Dans un État libre, Editions 10/18, n' 2948.
- L’Inde : un million de révoltes, Plpn, 1992.
- Un chemin dans le monde, Editions 10/18, n" 3348, 2001.
- l’Islam, Albin Michel, 1981.
- Jusqu'au bout de la foi, Plon, 1998.
- Le Retour d'Eva Peron, Editions 1(1/18, n“ 2005,1989.
- Pour en finir avec vos mensonges, Anatolia/Édilions du Rocher, 2002.… (mehr)

Have to say one of the brilliant books I've read this year; yes I even liked it more than the celebrated Patrick French Biography. This is a compilation of all the interviews of Naipaul from sixties to nineties. Bought it for £16 and thought it was worth every single shekel. Reading these interviews and the insights made me want to run and grab the next available person while screaming 'This is it'. This is one-man-clinical-precision-scrutinizing-machine having all the cultures and countries of the postwar world for breakfast, one at a time. Absolutely brilliant, loved the James Atlas interview for Vanity Fair in 1987, and many more wonderful ones. There was also an average one from 1965 by Derek Walcott, who pretends to catch the thoughts of Vidia while they are clearly sailing way past his head. In one question he even tries to put his own words, his own second rate understanding of the world unto Vidia and deserves what he gets.Here's the question:Walcott: Do you think that having lived in Trinidad, in a multi-racial society, has helped you to achieve a more balanced perception? For example, a writer brought up in Trinidad does not have the same racial belligerence as a Jamaican writer.the societies are different. In your work there a very delicate sense of humour. One finds this in Selvon also. Do you see your ability to laugh at certain situations, not with mockery necessarily, as part of having been brought up in Trinidad?Vidia: I really don't know . . .… (mehr)