Premium Content A Man Out of Place: Finding a Home in The Enigma of Arrival
By Kathleen M Dooley - July 01, 2004
In 1971, V.S. Naipaul told Ian Hamilton, "It took me a long time to see that I had no society to write about. I had to write differently. I had to look at the world afresh." Sixteen years later, he would publish The Enigma of Arrival, his most autobiographical novel, taken by some as a memoir. Like Naipaul himself, it is a complex, ambiguous little…
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