The Golden Gandhi Statue from America: Early Stories
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Subimal Misra
Translated from the Bengali by V Ramaswamy
Harper Perennial
140 pages, Rs 199
These early stories of Subimal Misra took the world by storm when they were published in the late 1930s. Misra’s pieces are more anti-stories than stories, a montage of images that flow into each other and tell a tale with greater power and urgency than narrative fiction. A self-proclaimed disciple of Jean-Luc Godard, Misra was the first to bring the language of film into Bengali literature and declare rebellion against the myth of the narrative and the age-old tradition of storytelling.
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