V. S. NAIPAUL: A HOUSE FOR MR. BISWAS

V.S. Naipanlis masterpiece, A House for Mr. Biswas is a leisurely and episodic account of the protagonist’s quest for identity in colonial Trinidad. His is the rebellion of the small, the weak, the acculturated. But his quest is nonetheless modernized version of the archetypal Everyman and, to quote Gordon Roehlehr, Mr. Biswas’s rebellion is an affirmation of universal values, transforming his rebellion from being a sordid personal struggle to one undertaken on behalf of his group. The present critical study explores and examines the background of A House for Mr. Biswas, analyzes the purity of motive to instinct and necessity which marks Mr. Biswas’s struggle

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