Incompleteness
Selected Essays
Essays on everything from the music of Joni Mitchell to the declining quality of Bengali food from one of India’s preeminent writers.
“I’m an Indian, so of course I write about India. But then, again, I don’t write about India. I’m not interested in writing about India. This means I’m not entirely, or comfortably, a part of the history of the Indian novel in English either. Nor can I be part of a history that’s now been appropriated by literary journalism and publishing houses: of the form of the novel. It’s not that I’m resistant to appropriation. I’m unfit for appropriation. This may be a good place to be in.”
A brilliant prose stylist and keen innovator of literary form, Amit Chaudhuri…
Amit Chaudhuri is Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of East Anglia. He has written several works of fiction, a critical study of the poetry of D.H. Lawrence, and edited The Vintage Book of Modern Indian Literature. Among the many awards he has received are the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, and the Government of India’s Sahitya Akademi Award. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and is also a musician.
The Immortals
Amit Chaudhuri, introduction by Pankaj Mishra
Incompleteness
Amit Chaudhuri
A New World
Amit Chaudhuri
A Strange and Sublime Address
Amit Chaudhuri, introduction by Colm Tóibín
Freedom Song
Amit Chaudhuri, introduction by Wendy Doniger
Afternoon Raag
Amit Chaudhuri, introduction by James Wood
Sweet Shop: New and Selected Poems, 1985-2023
Amit Chaudhuri
Sojourn
Amit Chaudhuri
Finding the Raga
Amit Chaudhuri
Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, introduction by Amit Chaudhuri, selected by Vidyan Ravinthiran
Friend of My Youth
Amit Chaudhuri
Party Going
Henry Green, introduction by Amit Chaudhuri