On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Dissenting Wren <dissentingwren at yahoo.com>wrote:
> Yes, yes, and yes to Narayan. And to Amitava Kumar. (And to who knows how
> many South Asian writers who don't write in English).
>
> I won't join in the piling on Rushdie, though. He strikes me as a bit of a
> tool, but I thought Midnight's Children was terrific. Yes, you can argue
> that it's derivative of Garcia Marquez, but it's still a magnificent,
> sprawling, caustic tour de force.
>
> But fuck Naipaul, who gives us pervs a bad name.
> http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article3688422.ece
>
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> From: "Michael Smith" <mjs at smithbowen.net>
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> Oh and second the motion about Naipaul. Ugh!
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>
> 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
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