Become ramayan chamars tale von misra subimal (6 Ergebnisse)

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Soft cover. Zustand: New. 1st Edition. Subimal Misra - anarchist, activist, anti-establishment, experimental 'anti-writer' - is a contemporary master, and among India's greatest living authors. This could have become Ramayan Chamar's Tale is a novella about a tea-estate worked turned Naxalite named Ramayan Chamar, who gets arrested during a worker's strike and is beaten up and killed in custody. But every time the author attempts to write that story, reality intrudes in various forms to create a picture of a nation and society that is broken down, and where systemic inequalities are perpetuated by the middle- and upper-classes who are either indifferent or actively malignant. When colour is a warning sign goes even further in its experimentation, abandoning the barest pretence of narrative and composed entirely as a collage of vignettes, dialogue, reportage, autobiography, etc. Together these two anti-novels are a direct assault on the 'vast conspiracy of not seeing' that makes us look away from the realities of our sociopolitical order. In V. Ramaswamy's translation, they make for difficult, challenging but ultimately immensely powerful reading.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - FOR FANS OF: William Burroughs, Kathy Acker, Tarkovsky, Godard, Beckett, and any other authors who play with form as a way of subverting the norms of literature.BENGALI'S BEST AUTHOR: who's work has recently been reprinted in HarperCollins India's special collection of the ten best works in translation they've published over their entire history.FIRST OF TWO MISRA BOOKS FROM OPEN LETTER: The other 'Wild Animals Prohibited' will be available in 2021.A LARGER-THAN-LIFE PERSONALITY: Misra famously tore up his degrees and took to teaching at a school by the red light district to help educate the sex workers children. He refuses to attend literary festivals and doesn't put an official price on his books, instead issuing them with a 'suggested exchange value.'ONE OF THE MOST UNIQUE VOICES FROM INDIA: Very little Indian literature has been published in translation, and nothing that's as bold, controversial, and anarchic as Misra.…