The Personal Life of Vididar Sura Prasad Naipaul

He suffered all kinds of discrimination at Oxford University-colonial geographical discrimination and Indian racial discrimination. Naipaul was a poor boy, which made him feel even more inferior.

Naipaul is a rootless writer.

He is of Indian descent, but there is no Indian cultural tradition in his life. His birthplace is Trinidad and Tobago in Central America, an island country first colonized by Spain and then by Britain, with little culture and history handed down. Although this Indian immigrant family is a high Brahmin caste in India, it is very poor; Naipaul received an English education from childhood, but for the British, he will always be an "outsider".

A writer like Naipaul, who seems to be related everywhere, actually doesn't really belong there, and seems to have a unique observation advantage, which also caused his division. As he himself wrote, "inferiority, impatience, gloom and introversion became his character, which made him maverick and maverick, but also made him indestructible."

From 65438 to 0950, Naipaul won a generous scholarship with excellent results and entered Oxford University. But this should be a proud achievement, but it didn't bring him any pride. "After leaving Oxford, I hate Oxford more and more. I learned nothing at Oxford. I teach myself and grow up by myself. " According to the analysis, this should be caused by the discrimination he suffered at Oxford University-the geographical discrimination of the colony, the racial discrimination of Indian origin, and Naipaul's being a poor boy, which made him feel more inferior.

Naipaul once believed that he was doomed to be a loser, and he could not kill himself by turning on the gas. After graduation, he went to London to apply for a job, and the situation was even worse. Nobody wants to hire a short, panting Indian. He failed to apply for 26 jobs in a row and almost starved to death. Later, he and his wife eked out a living by teaching. Because Naipaul was not in a good position in Britain at first, many years later, he did not forget to satirize the people of this country. "In Britain, people are very proud of their stupidity. Stupidity and laziness are the price of living here ... really, living here is like being castrated. "

Loneliness, anxiety, displacement and homelessness made Naipaul more and more angry. Only when he is angry, only when he attacks like a lion, can he have a foothold. It can be said that at this time, writing is his only way out and vent. In order to write, he went ahead regardless of everything.

Some critics say that if Naipaul stays in Central America where there is no way out, no matter how talented he is, he is likely to become a madman who is laughed at. With his talent and personality, only the western world can tolerate him and give him a chance to stand out like everyone else and find a real reader.

In the basement of London, Naipaul finished his novel debut "Psychic Masseur" and "Miguel Street", which later made him famous. After becoming famous, Naipaul could travel around the world and write in India, South America, Africa, Iran, the United States, Pakistan, Malaysia and other places ... which became the main writing content in his later years.

Naipaul described his feelings during these trips like this: "I am a colonist, traveling in colonies in the New World. As a visitor, I observe the semi-abandoned society in the romantic background of the new world, just like watching the place where I grew up from a distance. "

With one work after another, Naipaul became a legend in the world literary world. Up to now, he has published more than 30 works, and won the literary prizes of Booker, Mao Mu, Rhys, Smith and Cohen, and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 200 1 year. He is also a knight handed down by the Queen of England, and he is also called "the three outstanding figures of English immigrant literature" with Rushdie and kazuo ishiguro. In literature, Naipaul's talent is recognized by the world; But just like his farce in Nobel Prize in Literature, in life, he is a rude, selfish, stingy and mean person; In marriage, his character can be described by words like "scum" or "villain".

It is said that Naipaul once wanted to write an autobiography, but he couldn't write it several times-he might not be able to face his evil. Later, he agreed that the agent authorized the English writer French to write his own biography. French is impolite. By interviewing Naipaul and consulting all kinds of relevant materials, he also presented Naipaul's actions to the public.

Naipaul met his first wife, Pat, while studying at Oxford University. This English girl is 17 days older than Naipaul and has a good education. Pat's parents forbade his daughter to associate with this Indian, and Naipaul's family forbade him to find a non-Indian to fall in love. But it's no use. They hit it off and their views on literature hit it off.

Pat is convinced of Naipaul's literary potential, constantly cheering for him, and even giving up his stage dream. For Naipaul, Pat finally laid his cards on the table with his father and moved out of the house. Naipaul, who had just graduated at that time, could not find a job at all. Pat should not only help Naipaul stop his pessimism, but also help him find a job, write a cover letter and subsidize his family with his meager salary.

Naipaul and Pat got married on 1955. At that time, neither family knew about it. Naipaul didn't even buy Pat a wedding ring. Later, Pat bought himself a wedding ring. In the eyes of relatives and friends, Pat is gentle, friendly, shy and elegant, and cooking is delicious. Naipaul has a bad temper and often needs the comfort of Pat's mother.

However, Naipaul is not a loyal husband, and his wife has given him a lot of help in life and inspiration. Shortly after getting married, he began to have sex. The reason is "sufficient": he thinks he needs a lot of life experience and experience to get writing inspiration. 1972, Naipaul met Margaret because he wanted to write an article about the political situation in Argentina. She is only 30 years old, but she is married and has three children. Margaret is beautiful and charming, and is willing to endure Naipaul's sadistic tendency in sex. Margaret even gave up her husband and three children for Naipaul.

When they first started dating, Margaret had to support Naipaul because he didn't have much money. In order to make a living, she even became a banker after the divorce. But Naipaul is more cruel to this mistress than to his wife: he can come once or go once; Margaret was forced to have an abortion because every time she heard the news, Naipaul either pretended to be deaf, or accused her of trying to blackmail, and even said that she would send her child to England to shoot.

Pat and Naipaul did not divorce, largely because of Pat's selfless dedication. For Naipaul, he also needs Pat's help in literature. 1977, Naipaul was ready to start writing big bends. He invited Pat to accompany him, saying that the book could not exist without her. And Pat really came back to accompany him, and recorded the hardships of the creation of Big Bend in detail in his diary.

Pat was childless all his life and died in 1996. Before Pat died, Naipaul met his current wife Nadira in Pakistan. Compared with Nadella, who is 20 years younger than himself, he fell in love at first sight, while Margaret, who is over 50, was left behind. Naipaul married Nadira soon after Pat died.

A writer who participated in Naipaul's activities in Shanghai lamented: "In his life, he endlessly asked for and abandoned Pat and Margaret. Then he met the last woman in his life, a terminator, and was finally controlled by her. "

At the Shanghai Book Fair, a reporter told them that Naipaul's biography had been published in Chinese. The couple reacted quickly-Naipaul said, "Really!" Nadira said, "Too bad!" His ancestors belonged to the Brahmin class of Hinduism, and this religion had a very fierce struggle with another religion around him. Naipaul visited Indonesia, Malaysia, Iran and other Asian countries in 1980s and 1990s respectively, and wrote two cultural travel notes, which sold well. He severely criticized fundamentalism. Generally speaking, white intellectuals do not criticize different cultures and religions in this way. Both leftists and liberals are willing to respect other cultures. In addition, the "third world" appears as a negative image in Naipaul's novels, which is actually acceptable. Third world countries often attribute their problems to the sequela of colonial period. In fact, they do have their own problems-such as the problem that moral norms cannot be established, the problem of whether officials are clean, that is, the problem that a new benign society cannot be truly established after overthrowing the old colonial rule. Does the criticism of the new country after independence mean nostalgia for the former colonial rule? You can't say that either. New countries are sometimes more tolerant. From this point of view, Naipaul went very far, and he said what western whites dared not say.

Naipaul married Patricia Haier, a British woman, for 4 1 year until she died of cancer in 1996. In Patrick Negran's authorized biography, Naipaul admitted that he abused his wife and often had mistresses, and even admitted that he might have contributed to her death. In addition to often looking for call girls in London, Naipaul began to secretly love Maglute Murray, a married British-Argentine woman, in 1972, and often abandoned his wife in order to travel with her. Franco's biography also describes sexual violence in their relationship. Naipaul often abused his wife psychologically, telling her that he missed his mistress, but he also said that he needed her to help him edit books. Two months after Tricia's death, Naipaul abandoned his mistress and married Nadella Naipaul, a divorced Pakistani journalist.