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Portrait of a man 'almost wise'
In melding herself so closely to her subject such that she becomes his medium eighteen centuries later, Yourcenar accomplishes something extraordinary with the Memoirs Of Hadrian and has bestowed a gift to the reader of the '…portrait of a man who was almost wise.'
14 July 2024, 00:25 IST
Portrait of a man 'almost wise'
14 July 2024, 00:25 IST
A roiling beneath the veneer
Nadiya’s translation ably conveys the very specific sense of place and chaos of post-liberation Bangladesh through passages of text that are as poetic as they are bloody.
30 June 2024, 03:22 IST
A roiling beneath the veneer
30 June 2024, 03:22 IST
To be human and to be alive...
The essence of Segu’s power and glory was war — and Condé’s work, published originally in French as two separate volumes, examines its varying fortunes through the lives of one family and its descendants.
23 June 2024, 01:37 IST
To be human and to be alive...
23 June 2024, 01:37 IST
Memorable nods to love and brevity
Schelling, a North American poet, translator and teacher, has published several books of classical Sanskrit and Prakrit poetry, and in his words, the long-vanished worlds of these poems come alive in all their sensual glory.
01 June 2024, 20:12 IST
Memorable nods to love and brevity
01 June 2024, 20:12 IST
When summer turns swoon-worthy
Besides the compelling romance at its centre, the book’s picturesque settings — Florence and the English countryside — have ensured that it has been adapted many times over for the screen.
11 May 2024, 22:24 IST
When summer turns swoon-worthy
11 May 2024, 22:24 IST
Wounds from those whom you love...
In his final novel, The Moon and the Bonfires, which was published in 1950, the Italian novelist and poet Cesare Pavese shows how easy it is to fall into this trap of romanticising the past through the story of Eel who’d grown up in a village in the Piedmont and escaped to make his fortune in America.
28 April 2024, 02:41 IST
Wounds from those whom you love...
28 April 2024, 02:41 IST
Choosing serenity over cynicism
This book is a long way off from Chatterjee’s first novel, English, August, the work that heralded his arrival on the Indian literary firmament as a once-in-a-generation talent.
06 April 2024, 22:43 IST
Choosing serenity over cynicism
06 April 2024, 22:43 IST
Power games in a city of djinns
Written originally in French and translated into English by Russell Harris, Samarkand brings alive a long-forgotten world.
23 March 2024, 23:46 IST
Power games in a city of djinns
23 March 2024, 23:46 IST
Seething with quiet rage
If the Hotel du Lac was really not as good as the Booker judges made it out to be 40 years ago and if Brookner wasn’t such an accomplished stylist in her own right as much as Ballard was in his, it would’ve disappeared, hidden from view on dusty library shelves
03 March 2024, 00:20 IST
Seething with quiet rage
03 March 2024, 00:20 IST
Delving into the normality of evil
That One Book is a fortnightly column that does exactly what it says — it takes up one great classic and tells you why it is (still) great.
17 February 2024, 22:27 IST
Delving into the normality of evil
17 February 2024, 22:27 IST
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