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	Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul - tntol.com - Trinidad & Tobago Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Biswas (1961), Guerrillas (1975), and A Bend in the River (1979); autobiographical works including The Enigma of Arrival (1987) and A Way in the World (1994); analyses of modern Islam, Among the Believers (1981) and Beyond Belief (1998); and numerous political essays.
		The Engima of Arrival and the House for Mr.
		In 1961 appeared A HOUSE FOR MR BISWAS, often regarded as his masterpiece, which tells the tragicomic story of the search for independence and identity of a Brahmin Indian living in Trinidad.
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	Vintage Catalog \| A House for Mr. Biswas by V. S. Naipaul
		Biswas is forced to live as a guest in one crowded, inhospitable house after another.
		Biswas is bullied into marrying Shama, thus beginning a long and unhappy marriage that produces four children, a constant struggle for money, and countless bitter quarrels.
		Biswas is cowed by the Tulsi family into marrying Shama, the narrator reflects, "How often, in the years to come, at Hanuman House or in the house at Shorthills or in the house in Port of Spain, living in one room, with some of his children sleeping on the next bed.
	www.randomhouse.com /vintage/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=0375707166&view=rg (1329 words)

	LION HOUSE - CHAGUANAS
		The Lion House of Chaguanas was immortalized on paper in VS Naipaul's A House for Mr.
		Biswas, and now the building itself has been given a new lease on life.
		The house was built by Naipaul's maternal grandfather, Pundit Capildeo, who arrived in Trinidad, aged 21, as an indentured labourer on board the Hereford in 1894.
	www.nalis.gov.tt /Places/places_LionHouseChaguanas.htm (600 words)

	poetrymagazines.org.uk - Selected Books (4) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The birth of Mohun Biswas, and the death of his father which shortly follows it, contain those elements of mingled tragedy and farce that are to accompany him through life.
		A House for Mr Biswas is far from being a satire: Mr Naipaul loves his characters, and his treatment of them is not arbitrary although their limitations are defined.
		Among other things, Mr Naipaul examines the ways in which lack of privacy can either modify character to a point where the individual is absorbed by the group, or irritate it to a point where it sharpens into eccentricity.
	www.poetrymagazines.org.uk /magazine/record.asp?id=10113 (1024 words)

	A House for Mr. Biswas by V. S. Naipaul : Booksamillion.com (0375707166, Paperback)
		Biswas" "is an unforgettable story inspired by Naipaul's father that has been hailed as one of the twentieth century's finest novels.
		Biswas embarks on an arduous-and endless-struggle to weaken their hold over him and purchase a house of his own.
		Biswas masterfully evokes a man's quest for autonomy against an emblematic post-colonial canvas.
	www.booksamillion.com /ncom/books?pid=0375707166 (170 words)

	ReadLiterature.Com Book Club - Book Review
		Biswas in his house; a move she needn't have made and which roused the ire of the Tulsi's.
		Biswas is a person who is revolted by the small life of the money grubbing commercial and agricultural petit bourgeoisie represented by his maternal aunt and uncle and by the Tulsis.
		Biswas and the futility of labor remind one of the words of Tenneyson who lamented, "Why should life all labor be?" But in midlife and later in life what one regrets most is that so much time was invested in the futility of hard labor.
	www.readliterature.com /R_biswas.htm (5611 words)

	The House That Biswas Built -- ThingsAsian Article
		Biswas to procure a house has been compared to the struggle of postcolonial societies to transcend the vestiges of subjection.
		Biswas is repelled by everything from the smell of sandalwood to songs from the Ramayana; his holy men are the stoics Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius.
		The house is a lemon, overpriced; between down payment and repairs he is left with hardly a penny; and when he dies soon after, Shama is straddled with an unconscionable debt.
	www.thingsasian.com /goto_article/article.1874.html (1386 words)

	Free-Essays.us - A House For Mr. Biswas
		Biswas - the main protagonist of V.S. Naipaul’s A House for Mr.
		Biswas owning a house serves as a symbol which illustrates his ability to realize a self-identity and gain personal power to take control of his life.
		Biswas is a “ wanderer with no place he could call his own, with no family except that which he was to attempt to create out of the engulfing world of the Tulsis” (40).
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	Amazon.co.uk: A House for Mr. Biswas: Books: V.S. Naipaul (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Mr Biswas is an everyman: not too bright, not too good-looking, not too strong, and his attempts to make a better life for himself are constantly thwarted by his own failings, and the ambition of those around him.
		Mr Biswas' life is actually pretty depressing on the whole, but Naipaul tells his story as a comic tale, making it an easy read, and never unduly heavy.
		Mr biswas is the man none of us want to be, but all want to cheer on to better his rather sad life.
	www.amazon.co.uk /House-Mr-Biswas-V-S-Naipaul/dp/0140030255 (1363 words)

	A House For Mr. Biswas Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Biswas is a jerk," "I hope his house falls on his head," "How many more pages?" This one did not engage me, and as a result it took quite awhile for me to finish it.
		Yes, he gets his house (no big spolier there because you're told right at the beginning of the novel how it will end), but its such a hollow victory that there's no big thrill or feeling of accomplishment.
		Biswas was so set on physical possessions, that he lets his whole life pass him by.
	www.timsbookstoo.com /reviews/houseformrbiswas.html (411 words)

	Articles by Amitava Kumar
		Although Biswas's pursuit of the house, a grand narrative of anxious striving and failure, is undeniably the book's central motif, what makes the search meaningful is not the house in itself but the reason why Biswas longs for it.
		This is the strand that unites in Biswas the story of the ambitions of father and son, the writer and his subject.
		The single line that comes to Biswas every time he wishes to test a new ribbon in the typewriter is the following one: "At the age of thirty-three, when he was already the father of four children..." The half-finished sentence lights up momentarily a whole dark universe of desire and futility.
	www.amitavakumar.com /articles/notebook.html (1832 words)

	Amazon.de: A House for Mr. Biswas (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics): English Books: V. S. Naipaul,Ian Buruma (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Mr Biswas is a man who is not naturally rebellious, but in whom rebellion is inspired by the forces of ritual, myth and custom.
		The claustrophobic and constricting atmosphere of Hanuman House leads him to his crusade against the Tulsis...It is a struggle for assertion of his self...a need to be.
		This is a testimony to the power of Naipaul's artistry; he has, in tracing Biswas from birth to death, created a fully developed human being, as perfect a simulcram of a real person as exists in modern literature.
	www.amazon.de /Biswas-Penguin-Twentieth-Century-Classics/dp/0140186042 (1226 words)

	Champa Bilwakesh
		When they came home their legs were caked with the buffalo mud which on drying had turned white, so that they looked like the trees in fire-station and police-stations which are washed with white lime up to the middle of their trunks.
		Biswas would be made to join the boys and girls of the grass-gang.
		Biswas until destiny, again, interferes, making it "possible for him to console himself in later life with the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, while he rested on the Slumberking bed in the one room which contained all of his possessions."
	www.geocities.com /champa_b/Biswas-Being.htm (1038 words)

	Bookreporter.com - A HOUSE FOR MR. BISWAS by V. S. Naipaul
		BISWAS will introduce a whole new generation to a style of writing that evokes the 19th century novel.
		BISWAS is the story of a journalist who marries into a forbidding family.
		Biswas is a lesson in the power of the human spirit, tragic and comic together.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0375707166.asp (323 words)

	Venky's world!
		NOTHING ABOUT young Sanjay Biswas is worth chronicling, save the curious manner in which he, a confirmed bachelor who had pledged ever to remain so, entered into matrimony.
		Naturally, as one who had dandled him on my knee and told him many a story during his formative years, I was curious to know the whys and wherefores behind this policy change, and so when I bumped into him at a party the other day, I sprang the question on him.
		Which was when he narrated to me what, for want of a better phrase, I call the curious sequence of events which led to his going seven times around the ceremonial fire.
	members.tripod.com /venky2000/biswas.html (557 words)

	Amazon.com: A House for Mr Biswas (Twentieth-Century Classics): Books: V. S. Naipaul,Ian Buruma (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Biswas embarks on an arduous–and endless–struggle to weaken their hold over him and purchase a house of his own.
		Biswas is a deeply satisfying (as opposed to entertaining or superficially enjoyable) book, NOT easy summer beach reading, but a book which confirms the psychological cliché that its the HARD STUFF which is potentially the most rewarding emotionally.
		Biswas is not easy scare you off, because this is truly a brilliant book, and one which richly deserves its ranking as one of the best books of the century (#72 on the Modern Librarys best fiction list, for instance).
	www.amazon.com /House-Mr-Biswas-Twentieth-Century-Classics/dp/0140186042 (2231 words)

	Gaurav Baone - Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Biswas who is born, brought up and dies in Trinidad.
		Biswas, has just but one dream which is to have a house of his own and to live in it peacefully.
		Biswas has been said to be based on Naipaul's father.
	web.utk.edu /~gbaone/misc.htm (1267 words)

	CONTENTS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Biswas" is my favorite book and during research on Indo-Caribbean literature, I first learned that the "Monkey House", im all its grandeur, was a real place.
		Biswas I have always been intrigued by the Lion House.
		Any unauthorised use of the name The Lion House or any pictures of the Lion House or any pictures published on this website is prohibited and will be prosecuted.
	www.thelionhouse.com /COMMENTS.html (305 words)

	A House for Mr. Biswas -By V.S. Naipaul
		Biswas, is a rather tragic figure, with the misfortune of having ambitions without the means of achieving them.
		Biswas suffers many ignominies, his education is hardly what could be called complete, and his childhood is anything but very happy.
		Biswas is the classic loser, with nothing going for him, but within him is the human character the strongest.
	sawf.org /newedit/edit09182000/Bookrev.asp (673 words)

	A house for Mr. Naipaul
		Naipaul is never nostalgic; like his fictional alter-ego Anand Biswas, he was convinced at an early age that everything about Trinidad was provisional, makeshift, temporary and England was "surely where real life was to be found".
		Biswas created its own intricate universe with bright lucidity, piling up vivid details, naming every object,creating numerous characters with humour and compassion.
		Yet I continue to wonder at his consistent denial of the country of his birth and his entire childhood, which ironically, provide an enduring strand of memory running through his work, saving it from the cold brilliance of unmitigated cerebration.
	www.hindu.com /fline/fl1822/18220520.htm (1890 words)

	Glencoe Literature: Literature Library - A House for Mr. Biswas
		Glencoe Literature: Literature Library - A House for Mr.
		Despite its humorous tone and simple plot of a man's search for a house of his own, A House for Mr.
		Biswas explores deeper themes—finding one's identity, overcoming obstacles and ridicule, and not losing sight of one's goals.
	www.glencoe.com /sec/literature/litlibrary/ahouse.html (104 words)

	A House For Mr. Biswas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Biswas - the main protagonist of V.S. Naipaul’s A House for Mr.
		Biswas owning a house serves as a symbol which illustrates his ability to realize a self-identity and gain personal power to take control of his life.
		Biswas is caught in the grasp of feudalism.
	www.radessays.com /viewpaper/5767/A_House_For_Mr._Biswas.html (184 words)

	A House for Mr. Biswas at 2 Minute Pleasures-Imagination Dead Imagine
		Biswas from the moment he was born to the time when he dies.
		Mr Biswas is an ambitionless man who just goes through his life trying to find some pleasure in small things.
		To call him ambitionless will not be entirely true, he has a half baked ambition in his heart, that is to have a house of his own.
	imagine.blogintro.com /69/a-house-for-mr-biswas (290 words)

	Book Review
		Biswas" portrays through a series of homes he had and fairly brief life of a poor journalist turned civil servant in Port of Sapin, Trinidad, in the years before and after World War II.
		Biswas, as he is called by the author from infancy on, becomes a sigh painter, and at the age of sixteen, is tricked into marrying Shama, the daughter of the large and poweerful Tulsi family.
		Biswas decides to move into the city of port of Spain, and gets a job with a newspaper,"The Sentinal".
	www.allreaders.com /BookRView.asp?BRID=3009 (318 words)

	A House for Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipaul Detailed Book Review
		Mohun Biswas, a journalist working with a newspaper in the Port of Spain, is sacked just before his death.
		Biswas feels very much alienated with the society in which he is living.
		Biswas is totally against the traditions of his family.
	www.allreaders.com /Topics/Info_3184.asp (539 words)

	House for Mr Biswas
		Biswas spent much of his life rebelling against his family, his ethnic and religious community, and his society.
		Biswas, is a rather tragic figure, with the misfortune of having ambitions without the means of achieving them.
		Biswas suffers many ignominies, his education is hardly what could be called complete, and his childhood is anything but very happy.
	www.doingmyhomework.com /show_essay/8903.html (279 words)

	The Hindu : A Nobel for Mr. Naipaul
		Biswas, a wry and humorous look at the life of an unlikely rebel and the confusing tussles within his family.
		In some ways he was a man without a country, the lack of roots resulting in an incapacity to identify with people or cultures, an attribute which shaped his perspective on many subjects, which he approached or dealt with not unlike a curious anthropologist or, at any rate, an outsider.
		Naipaul's melancholic autobiographical novel of migration and arrival in England in which change and decay are examined through the unsparing and finicky eyes of a foreigner.
	www.hinduonnet.com /2001/10/13/stories/05132512.htm (608 words)

	Peoplehouse: "ALL THIS DISLOCATION AND DESPAIR": The Nobility of V.S. Naipaul (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Biswas and A Bend in the River, has made himself into the most controversial interpreters of colonialism, migration and the postcolonial disintegration of the Third World.
		An unassailable masterpiece of staggering proportions, it charts the life and death of Mr Mohun Biswas, whose struggles with poverty represent the fractured lives of people in British colonies.
		Biswas as a fat woman swaggering uselessly, as bad workmen (given only first names saucily borrowed from real life fl Caribbean novelists George Lamming and Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Trinidadians Samuel Selvon), and as a boy who emerges best in national exams, but spends his time chasing women.
	peoplehouse.blogspot.com /2006/03/all-this-dislocation-and-despair.html (1483 words)

	Books : A House for Mr. Biswas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		A rich, almost moment-to-moment depiction in the life of a hapless Trinidadian Indian, "A House For Mr.
		Biswas" is V.S. Naipaul's answer to "David Copperfield," a novel that uses his real-life experiences as showcase for his art and his darkly complex view of humanity.
		Born into a miserable family made destitute by the freakish death of his father, he lost his vocation to be a holy man when forced to eat too many bananas, then took to...
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	A House for Mr. Biswas - ALL-TIME 100 Novels - TIME
		When Mohun Biswas married his wife, Shama, he effectively married her entire family, the daunting, smothering Tulsis.
		Set in the Hindu community in postcolonial Trinidad—where Naipaul was born—A House for Mr.
		Naipaul's House, though built of excellent exotic materials, sags badly; 'economy, style, and a less elastic blueprint would have done wonders
	www.time.com /time/2005/100books/0,24459,a_house_for_mr_biswas,00.html (224 words)

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