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The novel aspect of the research resides in its multidisciplinary approach and in the multi-layered analysis of the texts seen in a comparative perspective, thus offering a view both of the main traits of Postcolonial literature powerfully marked by the works of Salman Rushdie and V. By analysing three major segments necessary both for the affirmation and the maintenance of an identity, the research addresses the novelistic universes of the two writers, and through the game-like relationship with the Self or with the Other which are shaped by the three elements time, space and journey, it illustrates the story that needs to be told. These aspects, necessary for the affirmation and maintenance of an identity, either collective or individual, favour the appearance and performance of the story, that which, through memory and narration, ensures the existence of an identity, but also the possibility of relating to the Other, the only one who, listening to the story, can confirm it and thus enable the transgression from Memini ergo sum to Scribo ergo sum.

The analysis has two levels (a general one of Postcolonial literature and its elements, and an individual one, of the world of the novels approached) and focuses on three major elements of the analysed texts: time (which includes memory), space and journey. Naipaul from the point of view of what has been called ’les règles de je/jeu’ (Marc Augé), approaching the relationship between the I and the self, the self and the Other, the self and the world, the relation being, through its structure, similar to a game. The present book treats, from the perspective of Postcolonial literature, in a comparatist manner, several novels of the Indian born writers of English expression, Salman Rushdie and V.