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Sto caricando le informazioni... English, August: An Indian Story (1988)di Upamanyu Chatterjee
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. At times laugh-out-loud funny, but more often a bit depressing, the author takes us inside the mind of a young, unambitious Indian man trying to figure out his life while training for his position as a civil servant in small town India. The book is full of rich characters which I had difficulty keeping straight, and outrageous moments of work avoidance I'm sure more could relate to than are willing to admit. Gives the impression of a society that learned from occupying forces how to appear to be a manager without really managing. I appreciated the window into Indian culture, but was happy to finish the book. ( ) Comment à-t-on pu affubler un texte moins idiot qu'il en a l'air un titre aussi stupide? Pavillon est une collection sérieuse et souvent de haut niveau... Et on a réussi à traduire "English August" (référence à l'acculturation tragicomique du héros ) en un titre débile (affublé d'une couverture consternante). C'en est à se demander si l'éditeur a LU le texte... nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Agastya Sen, the hero of English, August, is a child of the Indian elite. His father is the governor of Bengal. His friends go to Yale and Harvard. He himself has secured a position in the most prestigious and exclusive of Indian government agencies, the IAS. Agastya's first assignment is to the town of Madna, buried deep in the provinces. There he meets a range of eccentrics worthy of a novel by Evelyn Waugh. Agastya himself smokes a lot of pot and drinks a lot of beer, finds ingenious excuses to shirk work, loses himself in sexual fantasies about his boss's wife, and makes caustic asides to coworkers and friends. And yet he is as impatient with his own restlessness as he is with anything else. Agastya's effort to figure out a place in the world is faltering and fraught with comic missteps. Chatterjee's novel, an Indian Catcher in the Rye with a wild humor and lyricism that are all its own, is at once spiritual quest and a comic revue. It offers a glimpse an Indian reality that proves no less compelling than the magic realism of Salman Rushdie and Arundhati Roy. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)823.914Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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