Naipaul's "Reading and Writing"

This is post is dedicated to last class which was Wednesday 10/21/2015 and the literature named “Reading and Writing”.  Basically we talked about the fiction put in autobiographies to make them more interesting.  This is what Naipaul used his autobiography to make it more interesting and to not be a flatten story.  Is interesting how Naipaul says he never considered himself a reader but a writer even though he never wrote a thing, but now he is doing well and we can observe it in his autobiography.

In addition, is interesting how the “Reading and Writing” starts, with a quote by Stendhal that says: “I have no memory at all. That’s one of the great defects of my mind: I keep on brooding over whatever interests me, by dint examining it from different mental points of view I eventually see something new in it, and I alter its whole aspect.  I point and extend the tubes of my glasses in all ways, or retract them”.  What the author is saying of his memory is a hyperbole, also I don’t consider it a defect.  I consider that helps him give more fiction to the story and help to not think a lot about.  What Stendhal said about how he keep on brooding over whatever interests him, you can relate it to the unconscious writing of Carl Jung, where you write your first thought with a second thought and relate them trying not to think, just putting the ideas logically.  Like we have said, Naipaul, has used this technique to make his story more interesting, he may may also be influenced by Carl Jung. The purpose is not about lying in your story but to not put all the truth.  This help to spice the things up, give interest to the readers.