The next meeting of Great Books KC will be May 31, 2019. We'll be discussing A House for Mr. Biswas, by V.S. Naipaul.
Meeting Information:
Location: Plaza Branch Kansas City Public LibrarySmall Meeting Room
Date: May 31, 2019
Time: 7:00 pm
Address: 4801 Main Street
Kansas City, MO
Information about the book:
A House for Mr Biswas is the story of Mohun Biswas, an Indo-Trinidadian who continually strives for success and mostly fails, who marries into the Tulsi family only to find himself dominated by it, and who finally sets the goal of owning his own house. The book is a sharply drawn look at life that uses postcolonial perspectives to view a vanished colonial world.
In 1998, the Modern Library ranked A House for Mr Biswas number 72 on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. Time magazine included the novel in its "TIME 100 Best English language Novels from 1923 to 2005".
3 comments:
From Bernard Norcott-mahany:
Here is a link to "Good Sign, Bad Sign" by Monty Norman which was supposed to be sung by Mr. Biswas in a musical based on "A House for Mr. Biswas" -- Norman later used the theme for the much more successful "James Bond Theme" -- Enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6EuzGhIyRQ
Here's a link to my review of A House for Mr Biswas:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2823641391
The following is list of those present at the May 31, 2019 meeting:
Bernard Norcott-Mahany
Don Pepper
Marilyn Whitlock
John Rasmus
Kathryn Harris
Ed Doring
Tom Brown
Greg Brown
Clif Hostetler
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