Instead Naipaul moans on about his Nobel not being properly recognised in this country, he tells us how he couldn't damage other people, how much he cares for animals, and how wonderful his agent is for quadrupling his earnings.
His last dramatic masterpiece, Little Nell, about Dickens and Ellen Ternan, was given short shrift by the critics, but it will come back and be properly recognised, in all its dark, nightmarish complexity, as will his as yet unproduced Hullabaloo, an extraordinary Dionysian fantasia.
Poles see themselves as heroes of the war who have never been properly recognised.
The fate of unrepresented litigants has never been properly recognised by legal policymakers.
But another reason their originality has not been properly recognised is that there are two stories to be told: one is about the movements, the other is geopolitical - the role of the US in the defeat of communism.
He felt thathis work had not been properly recognised, and that he had not receivedthe fame and wealth due to him.
In his early life, when none of his work was properly recognised, he even doubted his sanity, as he reports in the first volume of his collected papers (Narrow Roads Of Gene Land).
As new therapies emerge, potentially leading to disease amelioration or cure, it is of paramount importance that the significant burden of SCD in resource-poor countries is properly recognised.
Now 70 years on, campaigners are calling for those islanders who defied Hitler's orders in this and other ways, to be properly recognised.
Welsh Rugby Union group chief executive, Roger Lewis, said: "This squad has written an important new chapter in Welsh rugby history which deserves to be properly recognised and honoured.
