{"product_id":"incompleteness-new-and-selected-essays-1999-2023-paperback","title":"Incompleteness: New and Selected Essays, 1999 - 2023 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAmit Chaudhuri\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEssays on everything from the music of Joni Mitchell to the declining quality of Bengali food from one of India's preeminent writers.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"I'm an Indian, so of course I write about India. But then, again, I don't write about India. I'm not interested in writing about India. This means I'm not entirely, or comfortably, a part of the history of the Indian novel in English either. Nor can I be part of a history that's now been appropriated by literary journalism and publishing houses: of the form of the novel. It's not that I'm resistant to appropriation. I'm unfit for appropriation. This may be a good place to be in.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA brilliant prose stylist and keen innovator of literary form, Amit Chaudhuri is one of the most singular voices in contemporary letters whose essays, like his fiction, defy categorization and display a sensibility uniquely his own. \u003ci\u003eIncompleteness \u003c\/i\u003egathers some of Chaudhuri's best essays and criticism from more than two decades. In these pieces, Chaudhuri writes on everything from Rabindranath Tagore and Joni Mitchell to the troubles with Indian modernity, from the humble yet delicious snack mix chanachur to globalisation's appropriation of narrative storytelling over poetic incompleteness. Drolly humorous, and filled with unexpected insight, \u003ci\u003eIncompleteness\u003c\/i\u003e is incontrovertible proof that Chaudhuri is one of our most original and gifted interpreters of the world after globalisation.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmit Chaudhuri\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eSojourn\u003c\/i\u003e. Among his other works are three books of essays, including \u003ci\u003eThe Origins of Dislike\u003c\/i\u003e; a study of D.H. Lawrence's poetry; a book of short stories, \u003ci\u003eReal Time\u003c\/i\u003e; two works of nonfiction, including \u003ci\u003eFinding the Raga\u003c\/i\u003e; 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 376\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.4 x 5.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 06, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51984094265645,"sku":"9781681379654","price":23.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/3vZzhYqL6K9781681379654.webp?v=1776081897","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/incompleteness-new-and-selected-essays-1999-2023-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}