Nabarun Bhattacharya
Subtitle: Aesthetics and Politics in a World after Ethics
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing India Pvt. Ltd.
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9789388630504
Subjects: Comparative literature; Literature, modern, history and criticism, 21st century; Indic literature, history and criticism
Description: "The book aims to introduce the Bengali writer (1948-2014) to a global audience through some of his short stories and poems in English translation and a series of critical essays on his works. A political commitment to literature frames Nabarun Bhattacharya's aesthetic project and the volume wishes to tease out the various perspectives on this complex meeting of politics and aesthetics. Be it the novel on dogs or those on petro-pollution and the machine, the political question in Nabarun echoes significant contemporary issues, such as animal rights, global warming and techno-capitalism. This opens up the possibility of questioning the traditional paradigm of humanist values in a world of catastrophic and violent encounters such as nuclear war or holocaust, which keeps returning in Nabarun's works"--