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932- August 11, 2018) Well a Self-Delusion SP Publications International Journal Of English and Studies (IJOES) An International Peer-Reviewed Journal ; Volume-2, Issue-5, 2020 www.ijoes.in ISSN: 2581-8333 RESEARCH ARTICLE A STUDY IN THE NOVELS OF V.S. NAIPAUL _____________________________________________________________________ Dr. Jai Shankar Tiwari Assistant Professor Department of English Nehru Gram Bharati (Deemed to Be) University Kotwa Jamunipur Campus, Prayagraj ,UP, India _________________________________________________________________________________ Abstract Keywords: V.S. Naipul, Postcolonial Study, Thus here Naipaul himself exposes the Literature Review, Cultural identity, India, emptiness of the claim of being citizen of the West- Indies. world of not only his own creation Tramp, but to some extent of his own heart. His claim to Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul belong to a “Universal Civilization” is, at best (August 17, 1932- August 11, 2018) well a self-delusion. Even then, he is not unclear: known not only among connoisseur of English his idea of it includes all men, and he sees it in literature world over but also among millions existence today, which means everyone, of laymen even ‘without being read widely or unqualified belongs to it. It is just another way popularly’. He has always remained an of saying that Naipual is human and therefore, enigma. He is known to be frank on most mortal! This self delusion is best expressed by matters. Yet, there is never consensus among Ralpyh Singh, “We pretend to be real, to be critics and reviewer over his statements made learning to be preparing ourselves for life, we directly or through his writings. Not only his mimic men of the New World.Finally, as words interpreted variously, but his Nobel, too Naipaul says, “Men need history; it helps them was interpreted in many ways, often to have an idea of who they are. But history, contradictory to one another. like sanctity, resides in the heart; it is enough that there is something thee.” To understand Naipaul and his writings, it is necessary to understand his past, Yet the question remains who is Naipaul? which was there or which was not there. This Borrowing again from his last creation Willie could be valid criterion for every other writer Chandran we can safely conclude. “I was but in the case of Naipaul, is not only more always someone on the outside. I still am.” A valid but an utmost necessity. As Harish disturbed and cursed soul, he is fated to be an Trivedi puts it, “That anxiety over a missing outsider wherever he finds himself and is past is Naipaul’s grand theme, it unites all his destined to remain as confused, perplexed, works, from the earliest social comedies, to the desolate and lost as he ever had been. most recent travel writing and it has always coloured his vision of the world. It is the ISSN: 2581-8333 Copyright © 2020 SP Publications Page 9 SP Publications International Journal Of English and Studies (IJOES) An International Peer-Reviewed Journal ; Volume-2, Issue-5, 2020 www.ijoes.in ISSN: 2581-8333 RESEARCH ARTICLE anxiety of a man twice robbed of history.” It is The characteristic Brahmin response to this his past where lies hidden the answers of the alienation was to close out the “outside world riddle that why the writings and, even, uttering of darkness” with a “tall corrugated iron gate” of Sir Vidia, as he should be addressed after giving a “Fierce kind of privacy” and knighthood, has been so controversial yet so fortifying taboo on enquiry. The “areas of engaging. darkness” encircled the feeling of being. That were to be feared and denied; distrust for Naipaul’s continuing and never ending everyone of a different caste, race, culture, The journey of exile is actually a desperate Blacks, Mulattoes, Creoles, Spaniards even the response to the fate befallen him as a result of other caste Hindus and Muslims from India. another exile and journey of his ancestors. His Long list of those to be avoided constricted the ancestors were taken from a remote village of already tiny world. Gorakhpur districts Bansgaon Tehsil, South of river Rapti; as indentured plantation workers, Until 18, before he left for London to to a small Caribbean island of Trinidad 19 pursue his ambition of being a writer in kilometers from the North Western cost of Oxford, Young Vidia growing up suffocating Venezuela in 1880. These indentured in this environment, did learn a lot, but knew sugarcane plantation workers, popularly named nothing and inquired little. All those questions “Girmittias’ created a mini India for them in that were pushed back of mind were to come to the heart of Trinidad. Born in this mini India in haunt him later, after exhausting what was in 1932, of Dubey and Pandey Grandfathers, his him as an author, drawn from his 18 years of memory of the culture of his ancestors was Trinidad life, in first four works, ‘The Mystic contained in rituals, ceremonies, and the Masseur (1957), The Suffrage of Elvira (1958) paraphernalia of scripture, brass bells , gongs , ‘Miguel Street (1961) and A House for Mr. and consecrated nectar that they had carried Biswas (1961). with them. The first three of these are satirical ‘His upbringing familiarized him with accounts of the private social (and also every short of deprivation, material and political) lives of fellow colonials, of different cultural” He was brought up almost like a races, though the focus is on East Indians in North Indian boy, confined to his family life Trinidad. One misses the tone of affection, as where they ate certain food, performed certain well as the satire that runs through his first ceremonies and had certain prejudices and three works in his later works after “A House taboos, which were unique to them and for Mr. Biswas”. Many critics have held “A expected others to have their own. In the House for Mr. Biswas” as his masterpiece. It is multiracial society of Trinidad they remained about his father’s life in Truinidad who had the apprehensive towards others and could not greatest influence on young Vidia. It was his strike a cord with the Island and its people. father who worked hard to come out from fate ISSN: 2581-8333 Copyright © 2020 SP Publications Page 10 SP Publications International Journal Of English and Studies (IJOES) An International Peer-Reviewed Journal ; Volume-2, Issue-5, 2020 www.ijoes.in ISSN: 2581-8333 RESEARCH ARTICLE of being a sugarcane worker and become a because the waves from the other side of the journalist and his aspiration and ambition of Atlantic whispered about a more firmly rooted, becoming a writer was transplanted to him in more stable and more metropolitan civilization the age of eleven. In ‘A House for Mr. Biswas” there. The same waves also spelt the obvious his inspiration becomes his theme as he had and permanent shakiness of what patchwork of emptied himself of early material he had of life a civilization they had in Trinidad. He had to and now he is in London far removed from his ride a boat all of a piece. When he reached the early source of experiences in Trinidad. centre, he found himself unprepared for the Naipauls early works also seem to be inspired site of what lay around him. And more, he and influenced by his father’s style in latter’s found himself made of two worlds, belonging only work. ‘Adventures of Gurudeva and other to none either. There was no going back, so he stories.’ His autobiographical novels-Finding had only one choice left: becoming, footloose, the Centre (1984), Enigma of Arrival (1987) ready to ride any boat or carriage, with all and A Way in the World (2001) after House kinds of co-travelers. In fact, it is difficult to for Mr. Biswas either explore and explain the separate Naipaul’s fiction from non-fiction, to “worlds contained in him” or exposes the him he had been writing big book right from “personas contained in him.” beginning to end. The connoisseurs will also see the truth in his observation that fiction In search of themes, Naipaul found reveals the author completely. himself at the end of the road he had thought leading to the centre of his world. He felt One can readily see the way Naipaul’s misled after the hard journey he had under ‘one big book’ is like the script of a film about taken to reach there. He was lost. And this in the life of many colonials in constant exile in itself came to him as ‘the theme’. Trying different countries trotting all over the globe to retracting his way back in time and space, he find a home, to a ‘final’ centre, all rolled into travelled to the Caribbean’s, where he had one; written in order to convince the audience hoped he would never return, on the invitation that the central character not only looks like a of the first government of the newly hero a peace with himself, but can finally independent colony. Now he had found a new achieve this oneness, the wholeness of body form: A travelogue cum historical account, and mind. it only was the subject matter of autobiographical novel, weaving past with present study whether he had been able to present, and facts with impressions and accomplish this goal, looking through fictional memories with conversations. This he was to characters. use repeatedly writing about the Africa and the The search of oneness begins with South of the U.S. in 24 works in all. search of one’s roots and identity. It is Naipaul had resolved to leave Trinidad, enlightening; making one aware of those to reach the centre, and not to return again aspects of his personality that one is ISSN: 2581-8333 Copyright © 2020 SP Publications Page 11 SP Publications International Journal Of English and Studies (IJOES) An International Peer-Reviewed Journal ; Volume-2, Issue-5, 2020 www.ijoes.in ISSN: 2581-8333 RESEARCH ARTICLE unconscious about; buried in the distant, But problem arises if a community is forgotten past.
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