The Mimic Men is the title of one of Sir V.S. Naipaul’s books. It is not about mimics. It is about colonial men mimicking the conditions of manhood, men who had grown to distrust everything about themselves.
Naipaul received the Booker Prize for his ‘In a Free State’ in 1971. ‘ In 1993, he was the first recipient of the David Cohen British Literature Prize. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. He lived with his wife Nadira and cat Augustus in Wiltshire and died in 2019.
From the Picador edition.
