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Abstract
The present article focuses on Naipaul’s emotional reactions to the general postcolonial situation impart an immediacy to his fiction which keeps it close to a significant quality of life in the Third world it reflects the desperation of people who are forced to live by daily exigencies. The aspect of his work which seems most unsatisfying is also what makes them most truthful. Naipaul’s keen sense of the underlying pressures of his characters’ lives keeps those issues insistent and urgent. He presents the other side of the social vision offered by writers whose works reflect a long-term optimism about the future of their societies.