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Author | : G V Desani |
Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2007-11-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781590172421 |
Wildly funny and wonderfully bizarre, All About H. Hatterr is one of the most perfectly eccentric and strangely absorbing works modern English has produced. H. Hatterr is the son of a European merchant officer and a lady from Penang who has been raised and educated in missionary schools in Calcutta. His story is of his search for enlightenment as, in the course of visiting seven Oriental cities, he consults with seven sages, each of whom specializes in a different aspect of “Living.” Each teacher delivers himself of a great “Generality,” each great Generality launches a new great “Adventure,” from each of which Hatter escapes not so much greatly edified as by the skin of his teeth. The book is a comic extravaganza, but as Anthony Burgess writes in his introduction, “it is the language that makes the book. . . . It is not pure English; it is like Shakespeare, Joyce, and Kipling, gloriously impure.”
Author | : Salman Rushdie |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 449 |
Release | : 1992-05-01 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0140140360 |
“Read every page of this book; better still, re-read them. The invocation means no hardship, since every true reader must surely be captivated by Rushdie’s masterful invention and ease, the flow of wit and insight and passion. How literature of the highest order can serve the interests of our common humanity is freshly illustrated here: a defence of his past, a promise for the future, and a surrender to nobody or nothing whatever except his own all-powerful imagination.”-Michael Foot, Observer Salman Rushdie’s Imaginary Homelands is an important record of one writer’s intellectual and personal odyssey. The seventy essays collected here, written over the last ten years, cover an astonishing range of subjects –the literature of the received masters and of Rushdie’s contemporaries; the politics of colonialism and the ironies of culture; film, politicians, the Labour Party, religious fundamentalism in America, racial prejudice; and the preciousness of the imagination and of free expression. For this paperback edition, the author has written a new essay to mark the third anniversary of the fatwa.
Author | : Pradeep Ed Sebastian |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2013-04-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9350294761 |
A unique anthology of writing on Indian fiction. This book is the first of its kind: 50 essays by 50 writers who thought so passionately of their favourite book that they leapt to the task of representing it here. Within these pages ,Siddharth Chowdhury celebrates Upamanyu Chatterjee as 'a bona fide home-grown rockstar' and Anita Roy quotes David Godwin's description of The God of Small Things as 'a shot of heroin in the arm'. They are all celebrating moments of rupture in literary history. Not all of these essays may convince, or convince equally: some very humbly and modestly focus on what the work offers, without making any worldly claims of it being an 'Indian classic' or 'one of the top fifty'. But each of these essayists, several being novelists themselves, is fashioning their argument in a sarcophagus of their love of this book, not really caring who else will be at this party. And who can resist the beauty of such passionate claims?
Author | : Brian Lennon |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1452915172 |
"In Babel's Shadow is an ambitious, sophisticated book that addresses crucial, timely issues in the study of life-writing, translation, translingualism, literary theory, and linguistics. Its range is extensive and its erudition and intellectual calisthenies dazzling."---Steven G. Kellman, author of The Translingual Imagination --
Author | : Upamanyu Chatterjee |
Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2006-04-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781590171790 |
Agastya Sen, known to friends by the English name August, is a child of the Indian elite. His friends go to Yale and Harvard. August himself has just landed a prize government job. The job takes him to Madna, “the hottest town in India,” deep in the sticks. There he finds himself surrounded by incompetents and cranks, time wasters, bureaucrats, and crazies. What to do? Get stoned, shirk work, collapse in the heat, stare at the ceiling. Dealing with the locals turns out to be a lot easier for August than living with himself. English, August is a comic masterpiece from contemporary India. Like A Confederacy of Dunces and The Catcher in the Rye, it is both an inspired and hilarious satire and a timeless story of self-discovery.
Author | : G V Desani |
Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2007-11-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781590172421 |
Wildly funny and wonderfully bizarre, All About H. Hatterr is one of the most perfectly eccentric and strangely absorbing works modern English has produced. H. Hatterr is the son of a European merchant officer and a lady from Penang who has been raised and educated in missionary schools in Calcutta. His story is of his search for enlightenment as, in the course of visiting seven Oriental cities, he consults with seven sages, each of whom specializes in a different aspect of “Living.” Each teacher delivers himself of a great “Generality,” each great Generality launches a new great “Adventure,” from each of which Hatter escapes not so much greatly edified as by the skin of his teeth. The book is a comic extravaganza, but as Anthony Burgess writes in his introduction, “it is the language that makes the book. . . . It is not pure English; it is like Shakespeare, Joyce, and Kipling, gloriously impure.”
Author | : Govindas Vishnoodas Desani (Schriftsteller, Philologe) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1970 |
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ISBN | : 9780370014241 |
Author | : Govindas Vishoodas Desani |
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Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 1972 |
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Author | : Govindas Vishnoodas Desani |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 1970 |
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Author | : Govindas Vishnoodas Desani |
Publisher | : McPherson & Company |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780914232797 |