Jeet Thayil ist ein indischer Dichter und Romanautor, der für seine eindringliche Auseinandersetzung mit Identität und Moderne bekannt ist. Sein literarischer Stil zeichnet sich durch eine reiche Sprache und experimentelle Ansätze aus, die den Leser in tiefgründige existenzielle Reflexionen einbeziehen. In seinen Werken erforscht er komplexe menschliche Beziehungen und die kulturellen Umwälzungen der heutigen Gesellschaft. Thayils Schaffen stellt eine einzigartige Verbindung von Poesie und Prosa dar, die mit Dringlichkeit und poetischer Kraft besticht.
This reprint of a 2003 work delves into the intricacies of the English language, exploring its evolution, structure, and usage. It offers insights into linguistic nuances and cultural influences that shape communication. The book serves as both an informative resource and a celebration of English, making it valuable for linguists, students, and anyone interested in the richness of the language.
The book presents a remarkable collection of images captured over thirty years, providing a unique and intimate glimpse into the lives of India's most celebrated poets. This visual archive not only showcases their personal stories but also reflects the rich historical context surrounding their work and influence.
From the Booker-shortlisted author of Narcopolis, in prose of extraordinary power, a novel about the women whose roles were suppressed, reduced or erased in the Gospels.'Dazzling, smouldering .
From the Booker-shortlisted author: one man's whirlwind weekend of self- destructive grief.
The Book of Chocolate Saints follows the unforgettable character Francis Newton Xavier and his journey towards salvation - or damnation - or perhaps both. In the swooning, hypnotic prose for which his Man Booker Prize-shortlisted novel was acclaimed, Jeet Thayil paints a hallucinatory portrait of an ambiguous a self-destructive figure living a wild existence of excess in pursuit of his uncompromising aesthetic vision, a charismatic contrarian, and a tortured artist battling with his conflicting instincts. His paintings and poems embodying the decadent jeu d'esprit of his heroes like Baudelaire forged his reputation, which is celebrated at a show in Delhi. Approaching middle-age, Xavier leaves Manhattan following 9/11, and his journey home to India becomes a voyage into his past. From his formative years with an infamous school of Bombay poets - documented by his biographer, Diswas - to an uncertain future, Xavier's story shows how the artist's life itself can become the final monument. The Book of Chocolate Saints explores our deepest urges in a novel that is sexy, dangerous, and entirely uncompromising. It is intoxicating, blazingly intelligent literary fiction - a strange, beautiful hymn to the artistic life lived fearlessly - that consolidates Thayil's reputation as one of the most exciting writers of his generation.
Roman
So haben Sie Indien noch nie gesehen – eine fiebrige Tour de Force durch das Bombay der Prostituierten, Dichter, Drogendealer Rashids Opiumhöhle im Rotlichtviertel Bombays bildet das dunkle Herz von ›Narcopolis‹. Hier schweben die Versprengten und Versehrten der Stadt ein, um sich einem trägen Traum hinzugeben. Die schöne Dimple, nicht ganz Frau und nicht ganz Mann, bereitet die Pfeifen vor, und alle kommen – Hindus, Muslime, Künstler, Angestellte, Xavier, der weltberühmte Maler, und Rumi, der Brahmane. In einer lyrischen, leuchtenden Prosa erzählt Thayil von einer »großen und gebrochenen Stadt«, die dabei ist, ihre Seele zu verkaufen.
Covers 55 years of Indian poetry in English. This anthology represents not just the major poets of the past half-century - the canonical writers who have dominated Indian poetry and publishing since the 1950s - but also the different kinds of poetry written by an extraordinary range of younger poets who live in many countries as well as in India.