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Description:Pradeep Sebastian and Chandra Siddan invite fifty contemporary writers to write on their favourite work in Indian fiction, embarking on a mammoth task with more than a little trepidation and a great deal of passion. The result is this volume: fifty original essays on our best books in fiction – a must-have reading list of fifty modern classics for the literary as well as the curious.In this unusual collection, the essays range from the personal to the scholarly, from the stylish to the provocative. Abhijit Gupta calls Nabarun Bhattacharya’s Harbart ‘a Molotov cocktail hurled at the heart of the literary establishment’. Abhijeet Ranadivé shows how Bhalchandra Nemade’s Kosala caught Marathi fiction napping. Siddharth Chowdhury celebrates Upamanyu Chatterjee’s English, August as a novel that could only have been written in English, since in any other Indian language, it would have been ‘condemned outright for being decadent and pornographic’.As for the books themselves, the usual grand suspects are here, but also present are some underrated, overlooked gems, each of them viewed through the perspective of a passionate admirer. Vidya Pai reveals why Mahabaleshwar Sail’s Yug Sanvaar is not only the most ambitious Konkani novel ever written, but also a literary masterpiece waiting to be discovered. And P. Radhika makes a crackling case for Triveni’s Sharapanjara as a popular novel that dared to go where literature didn’t. A book that celebrates moments of rupture in our literary history, this one’s a must for every bookshelf.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with 50 Writers, 50 Books. To get started finding 50 Writers, 50 Books, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 338

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: HarperCollins India

Release: 2013

ISBN: 9350294281

Description: Pradeep Sebastian and Chandra Siddan invite fifty contemporary writers to write on their favourite work in Indian fiction, embarking on a mammoth task with more than a little trepidation and a great deal of passion. The result is this volume: fifty original essays on our best books in fiction – a must-have reading list of fifty modern classics for the literary as well as the curious.In this unusual collection, the essays range from the personal to the scholarly, from the stylish to the provocative. Abhijit Gupta calls Nabarun Bhattacharya’s Harbart ‘a Molotov cocktail hurled at the heart of the literary establishment’. Abhijeet Ranadivé shows how Bhalchandra Nemade’s Kosala caught Marathi fiction napping. Siddharth Chowdhury celebrates Upamanyu Chatterjee’s English, August as a novel that could only have been written in English, since in any other Indian language, it would have been ‘condemned outright for being decadent and pornographic’.As for the books themselves, the usual grand suspects are here, but also present are some underrated, overlooked gems, each of them viewed through the perspective of a passionate admirer. Vidya Pai reveals why Mahabaleshwar Sail’s Yug Sanvaar is not only the most ambitious Konkani novel ever written, but also a literary masterpiece waiting to be discovered. And P. Radhika makes a crackling case for Triveni’s Sharapanjara as a popular novel that dared to go where literature didn’t. A book that celebrates moments of rupture in our literary history, this one’s a must for every bookshelf.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with 50 Writers, 50 Books. To get started finding 50 Writers, 50 Books, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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