This could have become Ramayan Chamar's tale : two anti-novels / Subimal Misra ; translated from the Bengali by V. Ramaswamy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Misra, Subimal, author.

Contributor:

Ramaswamy, V., translator.

Language:

Bengali

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories, Bengali.

Genre:

Antinovels.

Experimental fiction.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 262 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Rochester, NY : Open Letter, 2020.

Language Note:

Translated from the Bengali.

Summary:

This collection of two "anti-novels" is the first of his works to appear in the U.S. "This Could Have Become Ramayan Chamar's Tale" is a novella about trying to write a novella about a tea-estate worker turned Naxalite named Ramayan Chamar, who gets arrested during a worker's strike and is beaten up and killed in custody. But every time the author attempts to write that story, reality intrudes in various forms to create a picture of a nation and society that is broken down and where systemic inequalities are perpetuated by the middle- and upper-classes which are either indifferent or actively malignant. "When Color Is a Warning Sign" goes even further in its experimentation, abandoning the barest pretense of narrative and composed entirely as a collage of vignettes and snippets of dialogue, reportage, autobiography, etc. Together these two anti-novels are a direct assault on the vast conspiracy of not seeing that makes us look away from the realities of our socio-political order.-Back cover.

Contents:

The anti-novel : a manifesto

This could have become Ramayan Chamar's tale

When color is a warning sign.

Other Edition:

Reproduction of: Novellas. Selections. English (Ramaswamy). 9789353023072 Miśra, Subimala, 1943- Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India : Harper Perennial, 2019

ISBN:

1948830159

9781948830157

OCLC:

1111394797