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""This collection spanning 25 years includes a remarkable variety of subjects and is written in a variety of styles, from the personal to the academic . . . Chaudhuri is skeptical, alert, often trenchant, allergic to cant but occasionally taken with jargon in this lucid, surprising, and illuminating collection."" —Michael Autrey, Booklist

""This collection spanning 25 years includes a remarkable variety of subjects and is written in a variety of styles, from the personal to the academic . . . Chaudhuri is skeptical, alert, often trenchant, allergic to cant but occasionally taken with jargon in this lucid, surprising, and illuminating collection."" —Michael Autrey, Booklist ""In [his] essays breadth of knowledge and the fluency of thought are held in perfect balance...compendious, quietly passionate, rigorous, and unfailingly eloquent."" —Geoff Dyer ""Puts in question the key terms of self-understanding of much modern literature...a treasure trove of acute and thought-provoking perceptions."" —Charles Taylor ""A formidable intelligence at work....Puncturing intellectual pieties and lazy thinking, [his essays] challenge us to rethink how art and the world connect."" —Rita Felski

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Amit Chaudhuri is a novelist, essayist, poet, and musician. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he lives in Calcutta and the United Kingdom. He has written eight novels, the latest of which is Sojourn. Among his other works are three books of essays, including The Origins of Dislike; a study of D.H. Lawrence's poetry; a book of short stories, Real Time; two works of nonfiction, including Finding the Raga; and four volumes of poetry. Formerly a professor of contemporary literature at the University of East Anglia, Chaudhuri is now a professor of creative writing and the director of the Centre for the Creative and the Critical at Ashoka University, as well as the editor of literaryactivism.com. He has made several recordings of Indian classical and experimental music, and has been awarded the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the Lost Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, the Indian government's Sahitya Akademi Award, and the James Tait Black Prize.

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