Postcolonial Vision in V.S Naipaul's Half a Life and Magic Seeds

V.S. Naipaul is a pivotal figure in contemporary postcolonial literature. As a man shaped and defined by two cultures, East and West, he expresses in his works the psychology of people living in the third world and the obstacles he encountered as a rootless person in his search for a cultural and spiritual home. Naipaul's stories are, in fact, the histories of former imperialist colonies prior to their withdrawal. He wrote about the sentiment of a person who is not in his native land but in a colony, but whose sadness emanates from his heart and induces a melancholic state of mind. This paper aims to bring out the postcolonial vision of Naipaul in Half a Life and Magic Seeds. The theme of placelessness, unbelongingness and identity crisis is presented powerfully in these works