Guerrillas Naipaul V. S.
Guerrillas Naipaul V. S. Set on a troubled Caribbean island -- where Asians, Africans, Americans and former British colonials co-exist in a state of suppressed hysteria -- Guerrillas is a novel of…
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Guerrillas Naipaul V. S.
Set on a troubled Caribbean island -- where Asians, Africans, Americans and former British colonials co-exist in a state of suppressed hysteria -- Guerrillas is a novel of colonialism and revolution. Together with a leader of the 'revolution', they act out a gripping drama of death, sexual violence and spiritual impotence. A white man arrives with his mistress, an Englishwoman influenced by fantasies of native power and sexuality, unaware of the consequences of her actions.
The novel comes with extraordinary force from the centre of a profound moral awareness of the world's plight. Guerrillas depicts a convulsion in public life, and ends in private violence. 'Impeccable ...Guerrillas seems to me Naipaul's Heart of Darkness: a brilliant artist's anatomy of emptiness, and of despair' Observer