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Volume 16:12 December 2016
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Identity Crisis in V. S. Naipaul’s Half A Life

S. Muthumala, M.A., B.Ed., M.Phil.


Abstract

V. S. Naipaul is undoubtedly one of the most significant novelists of the twentieth century. His novel Half a Life delineates Willie Somerset Chandran’s search for self-development and self-knowledge. Naipaul masterfully manipulates the protagonist Willie Somerset Chandran’s colonial predicament, his anxiety, dislocation and search for his own identity in this novel. Half a Life portrays Willie’s continuing banished life from India to England, England to Africa and then to Germany to rediscover his self-identity; nevertheless he loses his true identity.

Keywords: V.S.Naipaul, Half a Life, self-development, self-knowledge

V. S. Naipaul

Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, is commonly known as V. S. Naipaul. He is undoubtedly, one of the most significant novelists of the twentieth century. He was born in Chaguanas, Trinidad on August 17, 1932. Naipaul studied literature in England at University College, Oxford. Being an Indian by descent, a Trinidadian by birth, and an Englishman by education, V. S. Naipaul possesses a multi-cultural background. Naipaul has produced a huge corpus of writing that includes novels, short stories, non-fictional novels, travelogues, fictional biographies, fictional autobiographies, journalistic writings and history. His works are Miguel Street (1959), A Flag on the Island (1967), The Writer and the World: Essays (2002), The Mystic Masseur (1957), The Suffrage Of Elvira (1958), Miguel Street (1959), A House for Mr. Biswas (1961), Mr. Stone and the Knights Companion (1963), In a Free State (1971), Finding the Centre (1984).

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S. Muthumala,M.A., M.Phil.
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Department of English
SMS College of Arts and Science
Kallamanaickenpatti 626131
Tamilnadu
India
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