| Popis: |
Although Indian writing in English has not seized upon the city of Delhi with the same alacrity and joyousness with which it has laid claim to Bombay (more recently Mumbai)—the quintessential city of inexhaustible plenitude, of the ‘too-muchness’ that Salman Rushdie has described so compellingly in his early fiction—it has, over the years, engendered a substantial body of writing about Delhi that might be less colourful, perhaps, than Bombay fiction, but is more weighed down and intense. Much of this brooding quality to the writing comes from a sense of loss, one that takes on multiple forms but originates, always, in the chequered and tumultuous spatial history of the city. |
