An Acre of Green Grass and Other English Writings of Buddhadeva Bose
One of the greatest and most versatile writers in the Bengali literary sphere succeeding Tagore, Buddhadeva Bose (1908–1974) was a poet, playwright, novelist, short story writer, literary critic, and essayist of great distinction. He received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1967 and was felicitated with the Padma Bhushan in 1970. Few realize that Bose was also one of the best writers of English prose in modern Indian writing in English.
This volume brings together, for the first time, a selection of his writings in the English language. Bose’s subjects range from world literature, Bengali writers, and Tagore, to Bengali gastronomy, Picasso, and the films of Charlie Chaplin. These wide-ranging and diverse essays are not only a delight to read, they are also some of the best literary criticisms written by an Indian critic since Independence.
Contents: Starting from Scratch: A Foreword by Amit Chaudhuri. Introduction. I. Books: 1. An Acre of Green Grass: A Review of Modern Bengali Literature. 2. Tagore: Portrait of a Poet. II. Essays: 3. English Literature in India. 4. Comparative Literature in India. 5. Nature in Poetry: Modern Trends. 6. Modernism in Literature. 7. Tagore in Translation. 8. Bengali Gastronomy. 9. The Last Days of Rabindranath: Record of a Visit to Santiniketan. 10. The Genius of Chaplin. 11. ‘In the Mouth of Fame’: Ezra Pound: A Page from Current History. 12. To Remember Is to Live Again. 13. Picasso: Man with a Thousand Eyes. 14. Twins in Suffering: Dostoyevsky and Baudelaire. III. Book Reviews: 15. The Hindu World Exposed-and an Author Too. 16. Boris Pasternak: Book Review.
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