![]() ![]() Instead, they cohere through theme or meaning the theme is displacement. Five narratives, none of which joins to another in any of the ways you’d expect, such as by continuity of story, shared characters, elements of plot. There is a prologue and an epilogue, each of which has a title, and there are those two ‘supporting narratives’, again with their individual titles (‘One Out Of Many’ and ‘Tell Me Who To Kill’). The subtitle of Naipaul’s book, ‘A novel with two supporting narratives’, is slightly misleading: there are actually four supporting narratives, if you take, as Naipaul does, the eponymous and longest narrative, ‘In A Free State’, as the ‘novel’ of the subtitle. Naipaul’s 1971 novel, In A Free State, with which my novel, if you’ll permit me to compare the great with the small (this is not humble bragging the facts speak for themselves – Naipaul is a Nobel laureate and one of the greatest novelists of the last century I am only three books old), is an attempt at a conversation. Neel Mukherjee: The structure of the novel is inspired by V.S. ![]()
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