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Mr Naipaul`s Round Trip and Other Essays

 
T.G. Vaidyanathan (Author)
Synopsis T.G. Vaidyanathan, TGV to his friends and students alike, taught literature and film criticism, played first-class cricket and thought the world was his subject. This book collects some of his best writings on literature, culture, film and cricket. In his essays on literature and culture, TGV displays his remarkable ability to take an apparently insignificant fact and use it to highlight matters of wider cultural import. From dictionaries to umbrellas to the stainless steel culture sweeping Madras, here is a truly eclectic selection of subjects. Each piece is imbued with TGV’s unique brand of intellectual energy that combines wide-ranging references with a rigorous attention to detail. ‘Memoirs of a Bibliophile’, a delightful journey through the world of second-hand bookshops, will find echoes in all book-lovers. Films were for him ‘secret odes to life’, and his approach to them is refreshingly unorthodox whether he writes about Monsoon Wedding or On the Waterfront. His essays on cricket are both a riotous celebration of the game and its heroes and a celebration of the people he shared this love with. His cricket writing is full of literary echoes and his heroes are Cardus and Wodehouse. The essay ‘Authority and Identity in India’, available in India for the first time in this volume, looks at the Indian psyche using tools as varied as epics, popular culture and sports. Along with the tributes written specially for this volume, the essays reveal TGV the man: a person whose closest friendships were forged by arguments, especially over cinema, of a mind constantly alert and questing and quite without cynicism, and a teacher who could equally inspire and exasperate but who believed that dialogue was crucial. Brilliant, eccentric, original and thought provoking, this book is certain to entertain and educate.
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About the author

T.G. Vaidyanathan

T.G. Vaidyanathan was the author of Hours in the Dark, a collection of film essays. He co-edited An Indian Cricket Omnibus with Ramachandra Guha and Vishnu on Freud’s Desk: A Reader in Hinduism and Psychoanalysis with Jeffrey Kripal. He also guest-edited the Sunil Gavaskar biography by Dom Moraes. TGV was born on 21 October 1929 in a village in Tanjore district. When his family moved to Madras, he was sent to Madras Christian College High School and then to college at Loyola. He took a law degree but did not use it, choosing instead to take an MA in English literature, privately. He did short teaching stints in Assam, Hyderabad (Osmania University, where he edited the prestigious Shakespeare number of the Osmania Journal of English Studies) before settling in at Bangalore University in June 1967, from where he retired in 1991. He wrote on cinema, literature, cricket and culture for the Deccan Herald, Gentleman and the Hindu. He died on 26 March 2002.

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Title Mr Naipaul`s Round Trip and Other Essays
Format Softcover
Date published: 01.01.2003
Edition 1st ed.
Language: English
isbn 014302955X
length 304p.