43 Sanjay Krishnan on V. S. Naipaul: To make the Deformation the Formation (JP)

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“My subject was not my inward self, but…the worlds within me.” Sanjay Krishnan, Boston University English professor and Conrad scholar, has written a marvelous new book about that grumpiest of Nobel laureates, V. S Naipaul’s Journeys. Krishnan sees the “Contrarian and unsentimental” Trinidad-born but globe-trotting novelist and essayist as early and brilliant at noticing the … Continue reading "43 Sanjay Krishnan on V. S. Naipaul: To make the Deformation the Formation (JP)" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices