《游击队员》(一九七五)是奈保尔的中期作品。此一时期还有《自由国度》(一九七一)和《河湾》(一九七九)。这三部小说质量颇为可观,将笔触伸向非洲和加勒比地区,描写第三世界新兴国家的局势,给作家开辟一块新的领地。回过头看,奈保尔最富特色的创作多半是出现在这个时期。 Guerrillas (1957) are mid-term works by Naipaul. During this period there were also “Free State” (1971) and “River Bay” (1979). The quality of these three novels is impressive, with their brush strokes toward Africa and the Caribbean, depicting the situation of emerging countries in the Third World and opening up a new territory for the writers. Looking back, most of Naipaul’s most distinctive creations came at this period.