维·苏·奈保尔作为一个英国的印度裔作家,他总是冷静地从内部和外部对帝国及前殖民地进行观察。他的作品反映了后殖民社会中像他一样的边缘人和无根人的生活状态以及他们寻找家园和文化身份时所处的困境,对帝国强加给殖民地的意识形态及价值观念进行了成功的颠覆和解构。小说《半生》主要讲述了威利从印度到伦敦求学、写作,然后随妻子安娜到非洲,最后离开非洲的半生历程。 As a British writer for Indian descent, Vyšu Naipaul always calmly observes both the empire and the former colonies both internally and externally. His work reflects the living conditions of marginal and non-rooted people like him in the post-colonial society and the plight of their search for homes and cultural identities, and has succeeded in the ideology and values ​​imposed on the colonies by the Empire Subversion and deconstruction. The novel Half-Life tells the story of Willy’s journey from India to London for study and writing, then his half-life with his wife Anna to Africa and finally Africa.