Comments on: "Beyond juju of any kind" http://caribbeanreviewofbooks.com/2008/11/30/beyond-juju-of-any-kind/ Bimonthly review of Caribbean literature and art Thu, 07 Nov 2013 03:03:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Ian http://caribbeanreviewofbooks.com/2008/11/30/beyond-juju-of-any-kind/comment-page-1/#comment-40 Ian Sun, 30 Nov 2008 21:30:00 +0000 http://caribbeanreviewofbooks.com/?p=316#comment-40 When I started reading <i>Half a Life</i> a few weeks ago, and I was struck by the fact that, even as he changed the characters and the setting (at least a little), Naipaul still tells his own story, over and over. Reading all the reviews of <i>The World Is What It Is</i> here, I started seeing additional connections with mentioned in French's biography.<br/><br/>I saw <i>The World Is What It Is</i> at the bookstore yesterday and had a long look at it (and realised that I'll have to buy it eventually). So with <i>The World Is What It Is</i> and <i>Half a Life</i> already starting to merge in my brain, and the story of Seepersad Naipaul and the goat fresh in my mind, up pops this story of witch doctors and juju.<br/><br/>It's all swirling around and starting to merge. Next time I talk about when I used to live in Chaguanas I'm probably going to think I lived in the Lion House :) When I started reading Half a Life a few weeks ago, and I was struck by the fact that, even as he changed the characters and the setting (at least a little), Naipaul still tells his own story, over and over. Reading all the reviews of The World Is What It Is here, I started seeing additional connections with mentioned in French’s biography.

I saw The World Is What It Is at the bookstore yesterday and had a long look at it (and realised that I’ll have to buy it eventually). So with The World Is What It Is and Half a Life already starting to merge in my brain, and the story of Seepersad Naipaul and the goat fresh in my mind, up pops this story of witch doctors and juju.

It’s all swirling around and starting to merge. Next time I talk about when I used to live in Chaguanas I’m probably going to think I lived in the Lion House :)

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