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A Wealth of Details

Volume XXXVII No. 1 - JANUARY 2013By ThebookreviewindiaJuly 17, 2017Leave a comment

In September, Harvard University Press published an edition of Jane Austen’s Emma with annotations by Bharat Tandon, a lecturer at the University of East Anglia in the UK.

A Tale Of (More Than Two) Italian Cities

Volume XXXVII No. 1 - JANUARY 2013By ThebookreviewindiaJuly 17, 2017Leave a comment

The year gone by was the bicentenary of two Eminent Victorians—Charles Dickens (1812-1870) and Edward Lear (1812-1888).

Vagaries of Life

Volume XXXVII No. 1 - JANUARY 2013By ThebookreviewindiaJuly 17, 2017Leave a comment

This issue of Civil Lines appeared a decade after the previous issue, and this review a year after that.

Many Lives of the Literary Text

Volume XXXVII No. 1 - JANUARY 2013By ThebookreviewindiaJuly 17, 2017Leave a comment

It was said of Albert Camus’s Outsider that having read it, one cannot relate to the world again the same way as before.

Through a Cinematic Framework

Volume XXXVII No. 1 - JANUARY 2013By ThebookreviewindiaJuly 17, 2017Leave a comment

In this beguiling novel, Ashokamitran shares with us the experiences of two men in the summer of 1964, who live and work in the film industry in Madras.

Reality of Dreams

Volume XXXVII No. 1 - JANUARY 2013By ThebookreviewindiaJuly 17, 2017Leave a comment

‘Communists are loath to talk about them-selves. […] the memoirs of communists are so frequently without any discussion of personal feelings, and certainly not of personal ambitions.’ Vijay Prashad, writer and academic, in Frontline magazine

Canons and Counter-discourses

Volume XXXVII No. 1 - JANUARY 2013By ThebookreviewindiaJuly 17, 2017Leave a comment

Whether it were Lionel Trilling and Oscar Handlin in the 1920s or later in the postmodern period, the revision of literary canon to include the voice of women, gays and lesbians, has always carried political undertones.

Miosis of Caste and Culture

Volume XXXVII No. 1 - JANUARY 2013By ThebookreviewindiaJuly 17, 2017Leave a comment

What does it mean to be a dalit in Bengal, that is, in a culture where Tantric, Buddhist, Hindu and Sufi/Islamic thought have mingled and occasionally clashed for centuries? This collection of stories goes some way towards answering the question, though I have to record my disappointment that no women writers are represented among the sixteen authors translated in this volume.

Walk Down History

Volume XXXVII No. 1 - JANUARY 2013By ThebookreviewindiaJuly 17, 2017Leave a comment

Vignettes is the English translation of Dristhipaat, a Bengali novel published first in 1946, penned by Binay Kumar Mukhopadhyay whose nom de plume, Jajabor, apparently means, as this reviewer found out, ‘a person whose status in society is lower than of a homeless’.

The Survived Poesis

Volume XXXVII No. 1 - JANUARY 2013By ThebookreviewindiaJuly 17, 2017Leave a comment

Tagore and translation has had a tenacious relationship over the years. While an English translation of his own work won him the Nobel, some of Tagore’s English writer friends turned against him for trying too hard to cater to English tastes.

The Personal and the Political

Volume XXXVII No. 1 - JANUARY 2013By ThebookreviewindiaJuly 17, 2017Leave a comment

The name of Sunil Gangopadhyay (1934-2012) has become iconic in contemporary Bengali literature, and his passing marks the end of an era. A prolific writer, he will be remembered for his poetry, novels, stories and essays, but most of all for his ability to bridge the gap between elite and popular culture.

Revoking the Given

Volume XXXVII No. 1 - JANUARY 2013By ThebookreviewindiaJuly 17, 2017Leave a comment

Deliverance opens with a one-line letter written by two sisters, Mimi and Shami, to various people across the world—Ranju, Janaki, Toshi-Ojisan, Yoshiyo-Hisayo, and Dr. Abhi—about their parents’ death.

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