The Mimic Men

V. S. Naipaul · 1967 CE · Novel · Caribbean · Contemporary

In a London suburban hotel a forty-year-old exile from the invented Caribbean island of Isabella writes the memoir of how he became a minister and then stopped being one. He moves without order between a boyhood among borrowed names, a student marriage in England, and a politics everyone involved knows to be a performance. The title gave critics their word for colonial mimicry.

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