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To become a writer, but to make an autography, he would have
to find ways of understanding the three similar but very different cultures.
For example, his family’s homeland from India, the Indian colonial society in
the West, in which he grew up, and the apart and distant world of the English
novels he read.
In this essay of literary autobiography, Naipaul navigates
through memories of his childhood in Trinidad, his university days, and his
earliest attempts at writing. Those helped him in seeking the experiences of
his life and his reading so he can prepare and get better in his imagination.
Naipaul’s profound reflections on the relations between personal or historical
experience and literary form, between the novel and the world, reveal how he
came to discover both his voice and the subjects of his writing, and how he
learned to turn sometimes to fiction, sometimes to the travel narrative, to
portray them truthfully. He really
balance the method that he express his personal facts by an entertaining the reading.
He just made the reading interesting and not as an autobiography is. Sometimes,
an autobiography is interesting only for the person who writes it. But, as the
method of writing of Naipaul, anybody could read it.
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So, how is the best way to write an autobiography? I think,
that as Naipaul did, the best way to write it is like telling a very
interesting story. So, when other people read it, it doesn't feel like we are
reading about yourself. Autobiographies are often confused with memoirs. An
autobiography is the inspiring story of a person’s entire life and the societal
setting thereof, while memoirs have a narrower focus on the narration of a
particular span of time within the subject’s lifetime. So, Naipaul inspired a
character by memories and treat the character as his own. He made the story
interesting, letting the reader confused about the identity of the character
called in silence as "Naipaul".
I agree with you tha autobiographies should be writting as stories, in order to make something interesting to the reader we must choose what is relevant and what is not.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you tha autobiographies should be writting as stories, in order to make something interesting to the reader we must choose what is relevant and what is not.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you. I actually wrote something similar in my blog. We should be writhing autobiographies in ways that are creative and fun.
ReplyDeleteI love the way Naipul talks and writes about autobiography. His exagerations in his story make it more interesting
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