Introduction
The Origins of Dislike
The Piazza and the Car Park
Poetry as Polemic
Deprofessionalisation and Legitimacy
The Other Green
On the Gita: Krishna as Poetic Language
The Alien Face of Cosmopolitanism: An Indian Reading of Cynthia
Ozick on the Woolfs
Qatrina and the Books: Nadeem Aslam and others
Ray and Ghatak and Other Filmmaking Pairs: The structure of Asian
modernity
The Photographer as Onlooker
The Sideways Movement
Unconstitutional Spaces
Un-machinelike
Nissim Ezekiel: Poet of a Minor Literature
The Emergence of the Everyday: Kipling, Tagore and Indian Regional
Writing
Possible, not Alternative, Histories
Starting From Scratch: Buddhadeva Bose and the English Language
On the Paragraph
'I am Ramu'
Amit Chaudhuri is the author of seven novels, the latest of which
is Friend of My Youth. He is also a critic and a musician and
composer. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Awards
for his fiction include the Commonwealth Writers Prize, the Betty
Trask Prize, the Encore Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for
Fiction, and the Indian government's Sahitya Akademi Award. In
2013, he was awarded the first Infosys Prize in the Humanities
for
outstanding contribution to literary studies. He is Professor of
Contemporary Literature at the University of East Anglia.
Drawing on an inimitable knowledge of various texts and traditions,
Chaudhuri embarks here on an impressive set of essays which are
delivered in an easy and confident prose, deliberating complex
ideas in readable, astute language.
*Seán Hewitt, Irish Times*
Arresting ... It makes at times for compelling reading ...
Chaudhuri's love of modernism and its art in various forms is
infectious ... this is a fine performance for a select audience by
a master of the English language.
*Robert Dessaix, Australian Book Review*
These essays testify to a formidable intelligence at work.
Chaudhuri's engaging yet exacting reflections range widely across
literature and the arts. Puncturing intellectual pieties and lazy
thinking, they challenge us to rethink how art and the world
connect.
*Rita Felski, William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of English,
University of Virginia*
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