The last section of this novel begins with the narrator saying that, in his late thirties "the dream of disappointment and exhaustion had been the dream of the exploding head.
The last section of this novel begins with the narrator saying that, in his late thirties "the dream of disappointment and exhaustion had been the dream of the exploding head." That last section of this novel narrates the creation of this novel itself and is called "The Ceremony of Farewell." The narrator of this novel learns to say phrases like  "pick the pears in" and "garden refuge" from Mr. Pitton and stays with the Phillipses. In this novel, its narrator describes the story it was originally going to be, about a man who arrives in a "dangerous classical city" and finds himself unable to leave. That story, and this novel, takes its title from a painting of two men standing in a large checkerboard-patterned plaza by (*) De Chirico. The protagonist of this novel spends most of it walking around his rented English cottage and musing about his time in England and his emigration from Trinidad. For 10 points, name this melancholic, meditative, autobiographical novel by V. S. Naipaul.
The last section of this novel begins with the narrator saying that, in his late thirties "the dream of disappointment and exhaustion had been the dream of the exploding head.
The {Enigma of Arrival}