NAIPAUL, V.S.
The Mystic Masseur.
New York: The Vanguard Press, Inc , 1959.
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First Edition of The Mystic Masseur By Nobel Prize-Winning Author V.S. Naipaul
First American edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's first novel. Octavo, original publisher's cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Dust jacket design by Robert Micklewright. Author photograph by Eddie Fong.
The Mystic Masseur (1957) by V. S. Naipaul is a satirical novel set in colonial Trinidad that examines social mobility, authority, and self-invention within a small, postcolonial society. Through the career of Ganesh Ramsumair, a failed schoolteacher who reinvents himself as a spiritual healer and eventually a politician, Naipaul exposs the fluid boundaries between religion, politics, and performance. The novel combines comic irony with sharp social observation, using localized detail and understated prose to critique the structures of power and aspiration in colonial life. In doing so, The Mystic Masseur anticipates many of the themes that would recur throughout Naipaul’s later engagement with postcolonial identity and governance. "A mischievous tale...spare and crisp" (Punch).
The Mystic Masseur.
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