After World War II, the colonial system of "the sun never sets on the empire" collapsed, and the colonial English education painstakingly managed for hundreds of years in the imperial era still produced the expected results, and immigrant writers became an important landscape in the British literary world. Among them, the novels written by V.S. Naipaul, a descendant of Indian immigrants from Trinidad, a Caribbean island country, have a stronger colonial color. In his works, the conflict between foreign culture and local culture is like a silent dark war, which replaces the lingering homesickness of immigrants, and the words of modernity are uniquely interpreted by novelists. As a writer who writes mainly by memory rather than imagination, Naipaul's early works are often richer in content and more natural in brushwork. No matter who is the first novel in the real sense, Miguel Street and Psychic Massage are highly readable. For Naipaul in this period, the invasion of local culture by colonialism was an important direction of his concern. Look at the carpenters in Miguel Street, a collection of short stories, doing "things that can't be named" every day. This gentleman lives on his wife, but he is as addicted to carpentry as a poet who doesn't even know what it is. A wife naturally dislikes her husband's laziness and idleness. After a marriage crisis, the carpenter finally became a man: rough, savage, hardworking and boring. This unspeakable story describes the last rapid cultural change in the colony-a pre-modern lifestyle full of emotion and spirituality, which was replaced by a modern lifestyle of working, raising a family and enjoying music endlessly. Psychic Massage has a similar colonial theme, but as a novel, Naipaul has a broader perspective. The hero Gan Nisha is an Indian immigrant boy in rural Trinidad, but he has a god-like name respected by Hinduism. He was lucky enough to receive some modern education in the city, but he finally got out of tune with the environment and had to go back to the countryside. Naipaul wrote many similar Indian youths, who are often regarded by radicals as a new force for national liberation. However, their respective paths are not satisfactory: some just improve their income and status, and some take part in the revolution because of the boring rural life ... but this Ganesha seems to have more prospects than them: he loves reading and thinking, and although he is shy and gentle on the surface, he is particularly responsible for doing things. In order to make a living, Gan wrote a book and worked as a massage teacher, but all ended in vain. Later, he became a "psychologist" (a "psychic" massage teacher) on the basis of erudition and added the shell of witchcraft, which was a great success. In the blink of an eye, Gan Nisha became a local celebrity. He ran a newspaper, participated in an election and rose all the way. Gan has always been more like a kind and wise "wise man" than a man who pursues fame and fortune. The poor don't mind how much he pays with customers as a "psychic massage teacher"; My father-in-law used his fame to monopolize the taxi business on his road and made a fortune. He came forward to solve it as soon as he knew it. After becoming a member of parliament, he often submitted anti-bills, exposed scandals, helped solve problems at all levels, and treated the poor and the rich equally. Culturally, he is simple, practical and all-encompassing: in his speech, he quoted famous sayings from various schools and religions, and at the same time expressed deep contempt for the complicated table manners at the banquet in the Governor's Office. Until the last few pages of the novel, except for the humor of the common people, the atmosphere of the whole story is cheerful and positive, just like a reformist political fable: through their own wisdom and hard work, rural youth have finally become a great figure in the colony and are making contributions to national equality. However, the book has a sharp turn at the end of the last few pages. After a dramatic blow, Gan's experience is no longer a vivid and interesting legend with a strong folk color, but a resume language with a waxy taste: he changed his habitual protest and began to attend a reception at the Government House to adapt to the British dining habits. "From 65438 to 0950, he was sent to Success Lake by the British government, where he tried his best to defend the rule of the British colonial government and left a deep impression on people. ... 1953, Ganesha 6 1 Ramsu Minar was awarded the Medal of Honor of the British Empire. " Of course, he also lost the vote. Just like Britain, which was the size of a projectile, once shook its colony with a land area of 100 times, in the history of the rise of supernatural massage masters, the colonial culture that went deep into the bone marrow was always invisible, but at the critical moment, it could stir a thousand pounds at once. Although this is a bit dazzling and incredible, Naipaul's intention is obvious: Ganesha, a talented colonial youth, has the right time and the right place, and finally stands on the side of the colonists. Gan's transformation is more hidden than The Carpenter in Miguel Street. If it is a tragedy, then the protagonist of the tragedy is not Ganesha, but most Indian civilians who are rarely mentioned in those novels. Who paid for this expensive tragedy? Like Miguel Street, the strong colonial atmosphere of the Caribbean islands and the folk customs of the Indians are the highlights that this book must not bypass. However, compared with the restless atmosphere in Miguel Street, the living environment of psychic massage masters is more peaceful and simple: steaming land where only sugar cane can be planted, ironic name "Spring Village", villagers who regulate each other's behavior through gossip ... It is in this place where traditional culture is relatively stable that ancient Indians' respect for learning and knowledge is preserved, which makes Ganesha have many admirers in her early years, although her career has failed many times. On the bustling Miguel street, those poets and scholars who have not yet become famous are regarded as lunatics, hooligans and vagrants. Naipaul's works are more or less autobiographical. Naipaul was still a nobody in the literary world when he wrote Psychic Massage. A passage in Gan's essays can arouse the reader's reverie: before writing a word, Gan's idea of becoming famous by writing books was well known, and he had been idle for a long time by sitting and eating his wife's dowry. Although he himself knows that poverty is a necessary difficulty for writers in their early years, people around him still complain. When he finally printed a brochure, he had to rack his brains for sales. Fortunately, there are types of vanity around people, and the mercenary old father-in-law is concerned about whether his name is in the book instead of writing a book to make money. Naipaul said, "I don't write for Indians. They don't read at all. My works can only be produced in a civilized and free western country, and cannot come from an uncivilized society. " It is hard to imagine how the story will continue if Ganesha finally realizes Naipaul's dream and becomes a writer instead of going into politics.