First Naipaul World Epics

The plethora of commentary from highly respected voices in a broad cross-section of academic disciplines, which V. S. Naipaul''s death on 11 August 2018 elicited, ranged so widely, both cognitively and emotionally, that if a student of literature, unfamiliar with the Naipaulian era, read it all, they would have failed to make sense of the divergences.

Allegations included that he ''was a cruel man'...