@article{article_1024250, title={Father As A Muse In A House For Mr Biswas}, journal={Toplum ve Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi}, year={2021}, DOI={10.48131/jscs.1024250}, author={Özer Taniyan, Reyhan}, keywords={V.S Naipaul, Baba, Oğul, A House For Mr Biswas, ilham perisi, yazmak}, abstract={A House for Mr Biswas is the tragicomic tale of a lifetime struggle of Mr Biswas. It deals with the biography of V.S. Naipaul’s family constructed around his father’s failures and decisions. It has its source from Naipaul’s father influencing him deeply in his literary career. The question in general here is how Naipaul’s father shows itself in his literary career. The answer lies in the literary stance of Naipaul. In most of his works, he undermines the father image in a family by referring to the failures of his father. However, the striking point is that no matter how badly Naipaul represents fathers in his works he owes much to his father. In order to show his gratitude towards his father, he revisits the story of his father in the early works of his writing career. He uses his father’s personal history as his material, especially for his first books. Being educated firstly by his father, he achieves great literary success in his life and therefore, this paper aims to address Naipaul’s father as his literary muse. To support the claim of the constructive influence of fathers on their sons, the studies of newly emerged theories on the father-son relationship will be used as the theoretical frame.}, number={8}, publisher={Çağatay SARP}