VS Naipaul on Charlie Rose 1994 05 17

A way in the world - 1

[@MrUndersolo]

Just finished his last book on India today: India: A Million Mutinies. I can honestly say that he is the least embarrassing Nobel Laureate of the last 25 years and I miss having his voice in our world today. Only the books remain and that may be enough...

[@insane3alien]

1. Loved your phrase 'least embarrassing Nobel Laureate'. 2. I find his observations in the books, Among the believers and the sequel Beyond Belief a lot more engaging than those of the India Triology.

[@lucasjararamirez5285]

What do you mean with 'less embarrassing'? You might not agree with the Nobel committee, that's fair, but implying that writers like Vargas Llosa, Munro or Coetzee, to name a few, are embarrassing picks is a bit of a stretch. Naipaul is nowhere near as good as some other Nobel laureates.

[@MrUndersolo]

@@lucasjararamirez5285 Right. Like Dario Fo, Bob Dylan, etc...

[@mirandac8712]

it's enough

[@firstal3799]

I like your last sentence.

[@billhammett174]

Naipaul is so damn intelligent and insightful...

[@firstal3799]

I must put a word for Charlie Rose. What an intelligent man. He holds his own interviewing a writer of the complexity of Naipaul. And I havr seen him do similar do similar with Milton Friedman

[@chromebook2447]

May His Soul Rest In Peace!

[@rationraw5017]

I learn VS Naipaul’s name indirectly by reading Fang Si-Chi's First Love Paradise: A Novel. Before her suicide the writer mentioned VS Naipaul’s name in her interview, talked about that she couldn’t imagine that such a great writer, behind his public life, he had a greater role of being an abuser in his family life. In this interview VS Naipaul mentioned several times that he tried to be right, do right thing, write write thing. Maybe in that process of him being right, the more right he was, the more violent he beat his wife and girlfriends

[@krms6233]

wouldn't it be amazing if Mr. Rose kept his wide mouth shut and let the intelligent mind speak??

[@rameshhansaravendra]

Too soft...