V. S. Naipaul: A Wanderer Of The Literary World

V. S. Naipaul, the winner of Nobel Prize of Literature in 2001, is a typical immigrant writer with multi-identity in world literature. His ancestors were from India but he was born in Telinida and now lives in Britain. Because of this,he was doomed to experience the uncertainty and puzzle in his culture identity. Therefore, wandering is the only way to his survival.The writing in his wandering made him find his own ideal spiritual homeland and earned the reputation of "the wanderer of literary world". This paper aims to totally and systematically explore his culture identity as well as his literary world,presenting the significance in the study of Naipaul. The paper is composed of the following four parts: Introduction:After a brief introduction about Naipaul's life and work ,this part presents the update achievements in the study of Naipaul at home and abroad.Meawhile this part puts forward the theme and the significance of the paper. Part One:This part is mainly about the writer.From the perspective of the culture identity,which is composed of the individual culture identity ,national culture identity and collective culture identity ,the paper draws the essence of the writer's identity and its significance to us in the context of globalization time. Part Two:This part is about Naipaul's works.It focuses on the literary world elaborately formed by Naipaul .This part concentrates on the most typical woks among his peer works.Firstly,from the perspective of the post colonial criticism, Miguel Street was Naipaul's reflection upon his birth place in an ironic way.The novel is a description of a miserable Telinida,where people lived in poverty and misery without any hope or future .Secondly,with the approach of culture trans-migration,we can find that A House for Mr. Biswas depicted not only the bitterness and hardship of immigrants in surviving but also the frustration in their seeking for individuality and independence.Thirdly,analyzing An Area of Darkness from the perspective of culture identity's split and the paradox in subjectivity's identification,we can take the text as a work of seeking root. In the novel,on one hand,Naipaul exposed and criticized severely the caste system,the religion custom and the status quo of India.His unreserved criticism and condemn exposed the decaying spiritual statement,on the other hand,Naipaul's journey to India was also his inner adventure to explore his history and inentity recognition.His unreserved criticism to India can be seen as his alienation from India and an expectation of a better India.At last,from the characteristic of the wanderer of literary world,with an analysis of A Bend in the River ,we can find that Naipaul,in a perspective of an outsider——an diaspora intellectual,examined the problems which were exposed in and after the struggle for independence of African countries,illustrating his boundless humanistic concern. Conclusion:It is his rootless wandering that formed his paradox and complexity in his culture identity,promoting his achievement in literature.As a wanderer in literary world,Naipaul refused to identity with any solid culture and chose wandering as his ideal living way because of his helpless situation and his subjectivity.His life choice and his excellent works have great significance in presenting people a way of reflecting upon the realistic life and their choice at the globlization time when two or more culture'conflic are doomed.