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- Remembering Subimal Misra | Excerpts
Remembering Subimal Misra | Excerpts
SUBIMAL MISRA (b. 1943) has been called the only anti-establishment writer in Bengali. Influenced by the cinema of Sergei Eisenstein and Jean-Luc Godard, Misra experimented with the use of film language in Bengali writing even as he made William Burroughs’s cut method his own. With his very first collection of stories, Haran Majhi’s Widow’s Corpse or the Golden Gandhi Statue (1971), he signalled his departure from conventional narrative fiction. He has written exclusively for little magazines. Misra’s stories, novelettes, novellas, novels, a play, essays and interviews comprise over thirty volumes.
Celebrate his volcanic literary legacy with some superb excerpts from his books, along with an EXCLUSIVE excerpt from his forthcoming collection of short stories: The Earth Quakes: Late Anti-Stories.
Translated masterfully from the Bengali by V. Ramaswamy.
About the Book - Wild Animals Prohibited
Audacious experimentalist and self-declared anti-writer, Subimal Misra is the master of contemporary alternative Bengali literature and anti-establishment writing. This collection brings together twenty-five stories that record the dark history of violence and degeneration in Bengal of the seventies and eighties.…
About the Author - Subimal Misra
To read more, order your copy of Wild Animals Prohibited, by Subimal Misra today!
₹ 375.0000
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About the Book - The Golden Gandhi Statue From America
An unemployed young man is invited to his lover's wedding and decides to gift her a bottle of his own blood. Rumours of a great big flood or the end of days or a rebellion of refugees in Calcutta fly…
About the Author - Subimal Misra
To read more, order your copy of The Golden Gandhi Statue From America, by Subimal Misra today!
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About the Book - This Could Have Become Ramayan Chamar's Tale
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…
About the Author - Subimal Misra
About the Author - V. Ramaswamy
To read more, order your copy of This Could Have Become Ramayan Chamar's Tale, by Subimal Misra | V. Ramaswamy today!
₹ 450.0000
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