Conversations with V.S. Naipaul
This collection brings together interviews from a thirty-six-year span and reveals a witty, sometimes scathing talker with a free-ranging curiosity. In early interviews, mostly given to such fellow writers and colleagues as Derek Walcott and Eric Roach, Naipul is clipped, brusque, and clearly impatient with interviewers. More recent interviews, given primarily to journalists rather than literary figures, reveal a more mellow Naipaul, often warm, passionate, and forthcoming about his private life
Print Book, English, 1997
University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, 1997
interviews
xxi, 174 pages ; 23 cm.
9780878059454, 9780878059461, 0878059458, 0878059466
35033715
A Talk with Vidia Naipaul / Fitzroy Fraser
Interview with V.S. Naipaul / Derek Walcott
Naipaul: An Interview with Ewart Rouse / Ewart Rouse
Without a Place: V.S. Naipaul in Conversation with Ian Hamilton / Ian Hamilton
Unfurnished Entrails
The Novelist V.S. Naipaul in Conversation with Jim Douglas Henry / Jim Douglas Henry
V.S. Naipaul: A Transition Interview / Adrian Rowe-Evans
Fame, A Short-Lived Cycle, Says Vidia / Eric Roach
"It's Every Man for Himself"
V.S. Naipaul on India / Charles Wheeler
Meeting V.S. Naipaul / Elizabeth Hardwick
Man in a Glass Box / Linda Blandford
Life, Literature, and Politics: An Interview with V.S. Naipaul / Cathleen Medwick
The Dark Visions of V.S. Naipaul / Charles Michener
A Conversation with V.S. Naipaul / Bharati Mukherjee and Robert Boyers
V.S. Naipaul: A Perpetual Voyager / Bernard Levin
Includes index