TIME Magazineのインスタグラム(time) - 8月16日 09時27分

It was once taken for granted that #writing about the far-flung world was a white man’s task, as Meena Kandasamy, an Indian poet and novelist, writes for TIME. But when V.S. Naipaul—who died at 85 on Aug. 11—stormed that bastion with his portrayal of life in the former colonies, he transformed the literary landscape. Born in rural #Trinidad, Naipaul was determined to escape, winning a scholarship to Oxford in 1950. He made England his home for the rest of his life. He published more than 30 #books—novels, essays, memoirs and political travelogues through troubled regions—and picked up almost every major literary award, from the Booker Prize in 1971 to the Nobel Prize in 2001. As the grandson of indentured Indian laborers in the #Caribbean and as an immigrant student in Churchill’s England, Naipaul suffered from a certain rootlessness. He ferociously churned out opinions that bordered on #racism and #Islamophobia, dismissed women writers as unequal to him and admitted to being “very violent” toward his mistress. A brilliant, tormented artist, Naipaul was compulsively readable—­even when one absolutely disagreed with his arguments. But as we marvel at his formidable body of work, adds Kandasamy, we must also mourn the immense talent he squandered on hostility. Read the full remembrance on TIME.com. Photograph by Eamonn McCabe—@camerapress_photography/@reduxpictures

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