G.V. Desani,Anthony Burgess
Wildly funny and wonderfully bizarre, ,All About H. Hatterr, is one of the most perfectly eccentric and strangely absorbing works modern English has produced. H. Hatterr is the son of a European merchant officer and a lady from Penang who has been raised and educated in missionary schools in Calcutta. His story is of his search for enlightenment as, in the course of visiting seven Oriental cities, he consults with seven sages, each of whom specializes in a different aspect of â€œLiving.â€ Each teacher delivers himself of a great â€œGenerality,â€ each great Generality launches a new great â€œAdventure,â€ from each of which Hatter escapes not so much greatly edified as by the skin of his teeth. The book is a comic extravaganza, but as Anthony Burgess writes in his introduction, â€œit is the language that makes the book. . . . It is not pure English; it is like Shakespeare, Joyce, and Kipling, gloriously impure.â€
Fiction,Cultural,India,Asian Literature,Indian Literature,Humor,Classics,Literature,Novels,Cultural,Asia,Literature,Asian Literature,Cultural
All About H. Hatterr