V. S. Naipaul Selected Set (8 Volumes in Total)
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A total of 8 works are included: "River Bend", "Guerrilla", "Miguel Street", "Free State", "Land of Darkness", "Caribbean Revisited", "Lost El Dorado", and "Conrad's Darkness My Darkness". Naipaul's works are extremely rich in political and cultural connotations. His creations combine keen narrative and rigorous examination, driving us to face those historical realities that have been covered up.
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History is also a fairy tale that rarely mentions slavery but often talks about its abolition, and it tells of the victory of the good guys over the bad guys. It's the only way to tell a story. Any other version would likely end up ambiguous and caveatable. Slaves never really existed, like exterminated natives, they could only recreate themselves from their daily lives. Therefore, they are still there. But like Vallo's prison (the floor plan of which has not been preserved), they exist only in people's imaginations. Slaves in documentary records have no faces of their own, they are silent and have no names. There is no story.
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History is also a fairy tale that rarely mentions slavery but often talks about its abolition, and it tells of the victory of the good guys over the bad guys. It's the only way to tell a story. Any other version would likely end up ambiguous and caveatable. Slaves never really existed, like exterminated natives, they could only recreate themselves from their daily lives. Therefore, they are still there. But like Vallo's prison (the floor plan of which has not been preserved), they exist only in people's imaginations. Slaves in documentary records have no faces of their own, they are silent and have no names. There is no story.
