The prophet of anti-globalism | Politics. John Ralston Saul is Prince Albert to Adrienne Clarkson's Queen Victoria. Clarkson, as you will know, is the Governor-General of Canada, which makes her that country's ceremonial head of state. She bends the knee to no one but the Queen. As a result, John is Adrienne's consort and, if you were to address him correctly, you should really call him Your Excellency. Oddly enough, he is staying in Kensington, just around the corner from the widow of Windsor's multiple homages (the Albert Hall, the Albert Memorial) to her dead German husband.
"I do hope this isn't the way the interview is going to go," says Saul, when I ask him about current etiquette issues in Ottawa. And with good cause. After all, he isn't just a leading Canadian's ankle bracelet. His latest book, The Collapse of Globalism and the Reinvention of the World, is published in Britain at a moment that would seem to make him right on the geopolitical money. So how did Giscard become comic? Saul clearly is not happy with this. Amazon. VS Naipaul: You might not like it, but this is Africa – exactly as I saw it | Life & Style.
Too late: a firebomb exploded this weekend as his book was called racist and "repulsive" by the novelist Robert Harris, who compared passages in the book about Africa to the fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley's depiction of blacks in London in the Fifties. Naipaul is used to emotive flak and wryly notes that this burst of high moral criticism has come from a best-selling author who had recently jumped to the defence of a man America was attempting to extradite for having sex with a 13-year-old.
(Roman Polanski is the director of the film version of Harris's novel, The Ghost.) For this book Naipaul travelled intermittently in Africa for six months with the aim of finding out what the people believed in, and the resulting picture of the continent's spiritual identity certainly has elements that are controversial: child sacrifice, witchcraft, primitive magic and trickery. Essentially the book is Naipaul's idiosyncratic search for Africa's spiritual core. "Truth stares you in the face. V. S. Naipaul - Nobel Lecture. Two Worlds Sir V. S. Naipaul delivered his Nobel Lecture in Börssalen at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, 7 December 2001.
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