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Mr. Stone and the Knights Companion: 2.5/5
This feels like the beginnings of Naipaul's later novels, those that are bleak, complex, plotless, internal, and unrelentingly committed to bringing fresh eyes to notions of class, work, life's value, etc. It's just dull here though. Interesting to see Naipaul write a white narrator/protagonist, particularly one who is British.
— Sep 18, 2022 08:17PM
This feels like the beginnings of Naipaul's later novels, those that are bleak, complex, plotless, internal, and unrelentingly committed to bringing fresh eyes to notions of class, work, life's value, etc. It's just dull here though. Interesting to see Naipaul write a white narrator/protagonist, particularly one who is British.
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Finished The Suffrage of Elvira. Much more than The Mystic Masseur, it feels like Naipaul is tapping into his mixture of the absurd and the hyperreal and the humanist that seems to characterize his early career. The first line is one of the best first lines I've read in a while. It becomes integral yet vain, superficially racist yet actually subversive to white/colonial readership.
— Sep 02, 2022 01:49PM
