V. S. Naipaul's Things Fall Apart

I just wanted to go to a prettier place. … I just felt I was in the wrong place’ — (Levin, 1997: 93) Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, generally known as V.S. Naipaul, is a globally applauded multi-dimensional writer having his background of an immigrant; that’s why his inclination towards his pet country, India is explicit in his works and other themes related to diaspora like identity-crisis, alienation, mimicry, cultural-clash, paradox of freedom, placelessness, dispossession, and homelessness etc. can be easily observed in his fictions and non-fictions. He belongs to three countries but he finds his roots nowhere. He is not sure even about his native country; that’s why he writes, “India is for me a difficult country. It isn’t my home and cannot be my home: and yet I cannot reject it or be indifferent to it: I cannot travel only for the sights. I am once too close and too far” (IWC 8). This thought works as an impelling force and a recurring motif in his works. Naipaul is enriched with vast knowledge on various subjects. Due to his intellectual maturity, the list of his works is a bit long and his works fall into different genres also. Present thesis …show more content…
This book is not a mere travelogue, there are Naipaul’s contempt for Indian system that is the main focus of the book. He even does not hesitate to write what other Indians will think about him and how the foreigners will think about India. He does not prevent himself to depict the true pictures of India. He does not bother to think that people will feel melancholic. Naipaul writes about it, “The India, then, which was the background to my childhood was an area of the imagination. It was not the real country I presently began to read about and whose map I committed to memory” (AD