“A Bend in the River can also be read as a response to two major works in the colonial tradition, Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart” (Parras, The Literary Encyclopedia).
In what ways might Naipaul’s novel be read as a response to Conrad’s and/or Achebe’s? (If you choose to write on this topic, your emphasis must be clearly on A Bend in the River).
