Pudumaippittan Fictions

Author: Lakshmi Holmstrom
Translator: Lakshmi Holmstrom
Publisher: Katha
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 251
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8187649534

Description

This work celebrates the new outburst of interest in Pudumaippittan, with this first translation of his best literary works by Lakshmi Holmstrom.

Transforming the literary scenario of Tamil delighted Pudumaippittan. He wrote stories that were filled with irony and the telling word, with what Umberto Eco calls the calculated rhythm and shrewd manipulation of effect that pushes writing over the line that divides deep literature from light fiction.

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Street Lamp
The Human Machine
A New Nandan
Ponnagaram
A Murderous Gang
A Well of Sorrows
The Great Cremation Ground
Kaanchanai
Deliverance from the Curse
The Affairs of Subbayya Pillai
God and Kandasami Pillai
Chellammal
Rope Serpent
Translatation or Adaptation?
To Kamala: Extract from a Letter to his wife
On Rabindranath Tagore
On the Bachelor of Arts by R K Narayan
About Tamil
Making it New: Pudumaippittan and the Tamil short story
Lakshmi Holmstrom

Chronology

Bibliography

Map