Listen to Me - Couverture souple

Shashi Deshpande

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9357764763 ISBN 13 : 9789357764766

Editeur : Context, 2023

Synopsis

THE MEMOIR OF ONE OF INDIA’S ICONIC WRITERS, LISTEN TO ME IS CANDID, INSIGHTFUL AND MEMORABLE Shashi Deshpande’s name is synonymous with Indian writing in English. Everyone you know has read her. Deshpande’s novels, with their assertive and modern themes, are as urgent today as when they were first published. Yet, little is known about her. She is famously reticent. In Listen to Me, Deshpande opens up about her life and work. She writes about being a writer and a feminist, and the shaping of these selves. She draws us into her world: growing up in Dharwad as Kannada littérateur Shriranga’s daughter, moving to Bombay as a student, figuring out her identity as a newly married woman, and negotiating the unfamiliar world of Indian publishing―and always, always her love of reading. As she talks about influences, detractors and challenges, the genesis of her own work shines through. This book is not a fight to claim a piece of public memory, and definitely not an act of selfaggrandisement. It is an acute observation of an eventful era in Indian literature and history, and a micro-history of Deshpande’s own engagement with it, through her certain and uncertain recollections. With its chiselled prose and honest self-knowledge, it revitalises that most delicate of endeavours: the writerly memoir.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Novelist and short story writer, Shashi Deshpande has eleven novels, two crime novellas, a number of short story collections, a book of essays, and four children’s books to her credit. Three of her novels have received awards, including the Sahitya Akademi award for That Long Silence. Her latest novels are Shadow Play and Strangers to Ourselves. She has translated works from Kannada and Marathi into English, and her own work has been translated into various Indian and European languages. Shashi Deshpande has participated in literary conferences and festivals, as well as lectured in universities, both in India and abroad. She was awarded the Padma Shri in 2009.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Context
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9357764763
• ISBN 13: 9789357764766
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 380
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible