http://globalvoicesonline.org/2007/05/08/trinidad-tobago-the-enigma-of-vs-naipaul/ The world is talking. Are you listening? Mon, 28 May 2012 10:58:43 -0400 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://globalvoicesonline.org/2007/05/08/trinidad-tobago-the-enigma-of-vs-naipaul/comment-page-1/#comment-1804309 Even More Naipauliana - MEP Publishers (Media & Editorial Projects Ltd) Sat, 26 Nov 2011 01:42:01 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/05/08/trinidad-tobago-the-enigma-of-vs-naipaul/#comment-1804309 [...] More Naipauliana It’s nearly a month since V.S. Naipaul left Trinidad, but his high profile, high-controversy visit is still a topic of avid conversation (and disagreement). Just yesterday, the Trinidad Guardian [...] [...] More Naipauliana It’s nearly a month since V.S. Naipaul left Trinidad, but his high profile, high-controversy visit is still a topic of avid conversation (and disagreement). Just yesterday, the Trinidad Guardian [...]

]]> http://globalvoicesonline.org/2007/05/08/trinidad-tobago-the-enigma-of-vs-naipaul/comment-page-1/#comment-1097227 L. Caplideo Fri, 11 May 2007 12:48:22 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/05/08/trinidad-tobago-the-enigma-of-vs-naipaul/#comment-1097227 Naipaul , like many very bright people, does not suffer fools gladly. I thought that his manner was affable, even avuncular on the two evenings that I saw him. He said that his books are a sum total of his life... So when we have read them what is there left to ask? Yet I feel the right questions could have brought him out more. The disatrous schoolchildren incident was amazing.Could the teachers not get together with their students and prepare some meaningful questions to enlighten about the man's work? Everyone was screaming about his outburst but I wonder if it were not Naipaul but a foreign Nobel Laurate whether the approach and reaction would have been different. I think that generally people love to hate VSN. I am not saying that he is not irascible but considering this, I think he was amazingly moderate. Now The Lady...that is a horse of a different colour.... Naipaul , like many very bright people, does not suffer fools gladly.
I thought that his manner was affable, even avuncular on the two evenings that I saw him.
He said that his books are a sum total of his life…
So when we have read them what is there left to ask?
Yet I feel the right questions could have brought him out more.
The disatrous schoolchildren incident was amazing.Could the teachers not get together with their students and prepare some meaningful questions to enlighten about the man’s work?
Everyone was screaming about his outburst but I wonder if it were not Naipaul but a foreign Nobel Laurate whether the approach and reaction would have been different.
I think that generally people love to hate VSN.
I am not saying that he is not irascible but considering this, I think he was amazingly moderate.
Now The Lady…that is a horse of a different colour….

]]> http://globalvoicesonline.org/2007/05/08/trinidad-tobago-the-enigma-of-vs-naipaul/comment-page-1/#comment-1093699 Nicholas Laughlin Thu, 10 May 2007 14:03:50 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/05/08/trinidad-tobago-the-enigma-of-vs-naipaul/#comment-1093699 You missed one blog reaction to VSN's visit, Jonathan, if it's not too self-serving of me to point it out: over at Antilles, the newly launched blog of The Caribbean Review of Books, we posted a note from writer Anu Lakhan, who mused about <a href="http://antilles.blogspot.com/2007/05/i-wanted-to-ask-after-augustus-anu.html" rel="nofollow">wanting to ask Naipaul about his cat Augustus, and the fact that "the work is so much more than the man"</a>. You missed one blog reaction to VSN’s visit, Jonathan, if it’s not too self-serving of me to point it out: over at Antilles, the newly launched blog of The Caribbean Review of Books, we posted a note from writer Anu Lakhan, who mused about wanting to ask Naipaul about his cat Augustus, and the fact that “the work is so much more than the man”.

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