Biographer Hilary Spurling unmasks ‘vengeful’ posthumous reviews of Anthony Powell novels by onetime fanA decade after the Nobel laureate VS Naipaul published his autobiography,some of his words hold come back to haunt him – and sparked a literary feud involving three of Britain’s foremost writers.
Passages in which Naipaul dismissed the writing of the late novelist Anthony Powell hold sparked condemnation from Hilary Spurling, the prize-winning biographer, and who accuses him of carrying out an inexplicable “act of vengeance” against a faithful friend.
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Source: guardian.co.uk