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　　I was eleven, no more, when the wish came to me to be a

writer; and then very soon it was a settled ambition. But for the

young V. S. Naipaul, there was a great distance between the wish

and its fulfillment. To become a writer, he would have to find ways

of understanding three very different cultures: his family's

half-remembered Indian homeland, the West Indian colonial society

in which he grew up, and the wholly foreign world of the English

novels he read.

In this essay of literary autobiography, V. S. Naipaul sifts

through memories of his childhood in Trinidad, his university days

in England, and his earliest attempts at writing, seeking the

experiences of life and reading that shaped his imagination and his

growth as a writer. He pays particular attention to the traumas of

India under its various conquerors and the painful sense of

dereliction and loss that shadows writers' attempts to capture the

country and its people in prose.

Naipaul's profound reflections on the relations between

personal or historical experience and literary form, between the

novel and the world, reveal how he came to discover both his voice

and the subjects of his writing, and how he learned to turn

sometimes to fiction, sometimes to the travel narrative, to portray

them truthfully. Along the way he offers insights into the novel's

prodigious development as a form for depicting and interpreting

society in the nineteenth century and its diminishing capacity to

do the same in the twentieth?a task that, in his view, passed to

the creative energies of the early cinema.

As a child trying to read, I had felt that two worlds

separated me from the books that were offered to me at school and

in the libraries: the childhood world of our remembered India, and

the more colonial world of our city. ... What I didn't know, even

after I had written my early books of fiction ... was that those

two spheres of darkness had become my subject. Fiction, working its

mysteries, by indirections finding directions out, had led me to my

subject. But it couldn't take me all the way. -V.S. Naipaul, from

Reading & Writing

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