Naipaul\'s El Dorado

Contents: Preface. 1. The Departure Enigma. 2. Return to Realities. 3. Realities – Realigned. 4. Lesson Learnt. 5. Life Lived. 6. Stories Re-told. 7. The Return-Enigma Unwrapped. 8. The Return-Enigma : A Way in the World. 9. EL Dorado Explored. 10. A Look Aside and Ahead. 11. Drawing to an End. Bibliography.

“Entitled Naipaul’s EL Dorado the work attaches special significance to Naipaul’s attitude to Trinidad, then extended to the entire Caribbean, and then further to the Black areas he has covered in his private and commissioned tours around on either side of the Atlantic for fictional reconstruction in his novels or consolidation of his ideas of people he met with their usual lifestyles-everything he touche is charged with an EL Dorado like absorbed urge and interest, similar to the Renascence EL Dorado heroes’ in his books, only they missed EL Dorado and he did not, which really defines his true nature or response perhaps yet critically undetected.”(jacket)