Comments on: A House for Mr. Biswas http://imagine.blogintro.com/69/a-house-for-mr-biswas 2 minute pleasures Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:25:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: pushpendra http://imagine.blogintro.com/69/a-house-for-mr-biswas#comment-352 pushpendra Wed, 02 Nov 2005 16:48:25 +0000 http://imagine.blogintro.com/69/a-house-for-mr-biswas#comment-352 When Mohun Biswas married his wife, Shama, he effectively married her entire family, the daunting, smothering Tulsis. Set in the Hindu community in postcolonial Trinidad—where Naipaul was born—A House for Mr. Biswas is the life story of a man who wanted only a home, but who was a magnet for misfortune, oppression and humiliation, "a wanderer with no place he could call his own, with no family except that which he was to attempt to create out of the engulfing world of the Tulsis." Mohun's survival is a triumph of resilience and persistence and humor, an epic of dignity and self-respect doggedly clung to.—L.G. From the TIME Archive: Naipaul's House, though built of excellent exotic materials, sags badly; 'economy, style, and a less elastic blueprint would have done wonders —TIME Magazine, Jun. 22, 1962 (Read This Review) When Mohun Biswas married his wife, Shama, he effectively married her entire family, the daunting, smothering Tulsis. Set in the Hindu community in postcolonial Trinidad—where Naipaul was born—A House for Mr. Biswas is the life story of a man who wanted only a home, but who was a magnet for misfortune, oppression and humiliation, “a wanderer with no place he could call his own, with no family except that which he was to attempt to create out of the engulfing world of the Tulsis.” Mohun’s survival is a triumph of resilience and persistence and humor, an epic of dignity and self-respect doggedly clung to.—L.G.

From the TIME Archive:
Naipaul’s House, though built of excellent exotic materials, sags badly; ‘economy, style, and a less elastic blueprint would have done wonders
—TIME Magazine, Jun. 22, 1962 (Read This Review)

]]> By: pushpendra http://imagine.blogintro.com/69/a-house-for-mr-biswas#comment-351 pushpendra Wed, 02 Nov 2005 16:46:00 +0000 http://imagine.blogintro.com/69/a-house-for-mr-biswas#comment-351 I CAME ACROSS THIS SONG OF BC SUTTA AND THROGH THAT I KNEW BOUT YOUR NAME,,AND WHEN I GOT THIS LINK MAN THE WAY YOU HAVE DESCRIBED THE STORY,,I MEAN THE NARRATION,,,I THINK I WILL SURELY READ THIS AND LET YOU KNOW BOUT IT, REGARDS HAPPY NEW YEAR I CAME ACROSS THIS SONG OF BC SUTTA AND THROGH THAT I KNEW BOUT YOUR NAME,,AND WHEN I GOT THIS LINK MAN THE WAY YOU HAVE DESCRIBED THE STORY,,I MEAN THE NARRATION,,,I THINK I WILL SURELY READ THIS AND LET YOU KNOW BOUT IT,

REGARDS
HAPPY NEW YEAR

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