Posted on 20/11/04
A pessimist in winter
Magic SeedsBy V. S. NaipaulKnopf Canada, 280 pages, $34.95Poor Willie Chandran. He is the main character in Magic Seeds, the 14th work of fiction by V. S. Naipaul. Chandran also held centre stage in 2001's Half a Life, a novel whose title can, it turns out, be taken literally. For many a literary creation, the immortality ensured by starring in two books by a Nobel Prize winner would be compensation for any discomforts incurred on the page. Especially, perhaps, when that laureate is proclaiming his work as a novelist finished, something he has, admittedly, claimed before.
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