A House for Mr. Biswas (1961)
As a Picaresque novel
Introduction:-
Naipaul’s fictional world is concerned
with the complex fact of individual, societies and cultures. It seeks to define
the individual’s identity by change and not by order or stability. Starting
with post-colonial third-world life, Naipaul has used fiction as an instrument
of analysis and clarification of the reality, the confronts, the human beings.
His common themes are clash of cultures, colonial psychosis and the motives
with the individual which creates structure of human relationships. He
introduces an individual struggling with the conditions in which he placed the
way he overcomes
it. With this problem, he may succeed or fail or finally survive. Thus
Naipaul’s fiction acquires a three dimensional picture, historical, social and
psychological. Therefore Naipaul is three-in-one, a chronicler, a historian and
a biographer.
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