----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Smith" <mjs at smithbowen.net>
Oh and second the motion about Naipaul. Ugh! ---------
Yeah, I tried to read him but couldn't. It's interesting though that the West slobbers all over this constipated scribbler, but ignores R.K. Narayan, one of the great writers of the 20th century. The Chekhov of India if you will.
You can't even get his books here easily. Someone on lbo wrote a friend in India who sent me all his books. Oh, the ecstasy of it!!!
I suspect the reason Naipaul is preferred to Narayan is because Naipaul worries about the West whereas Narayan can't even be bothered to mention it.
And worse than that, fucking Naipaul won the fucking Nobel.
Ugh,
Joanna