Product Description
Blue Eclipse is a collection of fourteen stories spanning George Varghese Kakanadan s career that lets us catch a glimpse of the brilliance of one of the flagbearers of modernist Malayalam literature. If the title story is an untrammelled exploration of surreal ideas, Time-worn is a simple tale of nostalgia that takes shape on a retired school teacher's last day of life. Through an artist torn between his search for enlightenment and the magic of his model s physical beauty, Sri Chakram reflects on the Hindu philosophies of dualism and non-duality, while Madness and Sunshine talk about sex and the power of women in completely different circumstances. At once powerful and beautiful, morose and terrifying, liberating and suffocating, this is a collection to savour.
About the Author
Known for their bold and powerful yet poetic language, George Varghese Kakanadan s (1935 2011) works are considered landmarks in modernist Malayalam literature. Rishi Kakanadan is a journalist and translator living in New Delhi.