Abstract

Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad (V.S. Naipaul) was born in Trinidad in 1932. His works have been an enduring focus between rich and poor, colonizer and colonized. In The New York Review of Books, Naipaul has been called '”a master of English prose,” which indicates his weight in modern literature, especially in post colonialism. The paper depicts a dark area and tragedy in Miguel Street throughout the characters and their dialogues. Naipaul is famous for his sad-given-tonic moment in his novels. The paper also provides examples and explanations behind the tragedy of the novel and what the characters suffer from: misunderstanding, poverty, or losing humanity that no more communication works out. Miguel Street is a place where all the tragic moments happen in the novel. Each section of the story ends with sadness and disappointment.

Highlights

  • Miguel Street (1959) is one of Naipaul’s outstanding novels and is a semi-autobiographical novel set in Port of Spain, Trinidad

  • The novel consists of seventeen sections, and each deals with a different story, with a new title

  • The novel focuses on the main characters such as Hat, Popo, and the narrator, and their personal lives on Miguel Street

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Introduction

Miguel Street (1959) is one of Naipaul’s outstanding novels and is a semi-autobiographical novel set in Port of Spain, Trinidad. The novel focuses on the main characters such as Hat, Popo, and the narrator, and their personal lives on Miguel Street. The story is about diversity of life, death, marriage and work on Miguel Street, and conveys a sense of comic-tragedy to the readers. It is told through the eyes of a young child narrator. A ritual conducted at appropriate moments for appropriate purposes. In this ritual there is an equilibrium between the protagonists. Naipaul has given a lot of examples that denote the tragic moment for everyone in the novel and the readers as well.

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