Author: Raja Rao
Editor(s): Makarand Paranjape
Publisher: Katha
Year: 1998
Language: English
Pages: 194
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8185586810
Description
Published to mark his 90th birthday, this Katha Classic has been put together by Makarand Paranjape and offers the choicest sampling of Raja Rao's works ranging from short stories and extracts of novels to nonfiction, richly invested with his understanding of history, politics, and philosophy.
Raja Rao is one of the greatest Indian writers in English and a major figure in twentieth century literature. An iconoclast, he has used language, form and content in innovative ways over the past sixty years, producing an enduring body of texts.
Raja Rao has brought to Indian fiction ... an epic breadth of vision, a metaphysical rigor and depth of thought, a symbolic richness, a lyrical fervor and an essential Indianness' of style.
Raja Rao is perhaps the most brilliant and certainly the most interesting writer of modern India. --- New York Times Book Review
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Acknowledgement
Foreword to Kanthapura
Kanthapura
Companions
India - a Fable
The Serpent and the Rope
The Policeman and the Rose
The Cat and Shakespeare
The Writer and the Word
Comrade Kirillov
The Chessmaster and His Moves
Bhim, the Parrot
Ranchoddoss and his Daughter, Sudha
On Understanding
Words of Acceptance
The Silence of Mahatma Gandhi
Chronology
Map
Bibliography