A Writer's People: Ways of Looking and Feeling, V. S. Naipaul essays aggressive materialism of the new

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A Writer's People: Ways of Looking and Feeling, V. S. Naipaul essays aggressive materialism of the newV. S. Naipaul has always faced the challenges of "fitting one civilization to another." In A Writer's People , he takes us into this process of creative and intellectual assimilation, which has shaped both his writing and his life. Naipaul discusses the writers to whom he was exposed early onDerek Walcott, Gustave Flaubert, and his father, among themand his first encounters with literary culture. He illuminates the ways in which the writings of