This Could Have Become Ramayan Chamar's Tale: Two Anti-Novels - Paperback
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This Could Have Become Ramayan Chamar's Tale: Two Anti-Novels - Paperback
$15.95
by Subimal Misra (Author), Venkateswar Ramaswamy (Translator)
First U.S. publication of the Bengali William S. Burroughs.
Author Biography
Subimal Misra is a Bengali novelist, short story writer, and essayist. He's considered by many to be one of most important, and experimental, Bengali writers of all time. Heavily influenced by Jean-Luc Godard and William S. Burroughs, Subimal Misra uses various cinematic techniques, like montage, jump-cut etc., in his literary works. And Godard mentioned him as the "Godard of literature." The author of more than a dozen books, this is the first collection of his to appear in the United States.
V. Ramaswamy is a nonfiction writer and translator based in Kolkata, India. As an activist working for the rights of the labouring poor, Ramaswamy has written about workers, squatters, slums, poverty, housing and resettlement, and has been at the forefront of efforts to envision and initiate the rebuilding of his city from the grassroots. Since 2005, he has been translating the short fiction of the Bengali anti-establishment experimental writer, Subimal Misra, whose critical eye examines the society, politics and culture of his time.
Number of Pages: 296
Dimensions: 0.9 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN
Publication Date: July 21, 2020
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