8 rows · · Odysseus Abroad follows them on one of their weekly, familiar forays about town. The narrative ISBN A day in the life of two Indian men abroad--a Uinversity student and his bachelor uncle--a surreal comedy, self-mocking, often hilarious sex, as Chaudhuri explores the immigrant experience, even the colonial experience, as each copes in his own way with alienation, aloneness, and the very art of living. pages. x inches. , Alfred A Knopf, New York. His uncle, Radhesh, a magnificent failure who lives in genteel impoverishment and celibacy, has been in London for nearly three decades. Odysseus Abroad follows them on one of their weekly, familiar forays about town. The narrative surface has the sensual richness that has graced all .
The Immortals: 'Amit Chaudhuri, himself a composer and musician, excels in the passages devoted to music, "the miracle of song and its pleasure". Steven Poole, The Guardian. Odysseus Abroad: 'Chaudhuri is a singular writer. He defies form; instead he has perfected an observational fiction based on insight and memory.'. Amit Chaudhuri Talking about his latest novel Odysseus Abroad, Amit Chaudhuri talks about why he believes plot is an overrated device. Essayist, novelist, professor, musician. In Odysseus Abroad, Chaudhuri did not in any way engage me emotionally or pique my interest in his characters, whose lives seemed empty and superficial, and whose brief literary reflections lacked any depth. out of 5 stars Odysseus Abroad by Amit Chaudhury. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on Ma. Verified Purchase.
In Odysseus Abroad, Amit Chaudhuri charts a day in the life of two Indian men—a twenty-two-year-old student trying (and failing) at being a poet and his bachelor uncle, who has been living in genteel poverty for nearly three decades—as they explore London, the city they now call home. Odysseus Abroad is Chaudhuri’s conversation with Joyce’s Ulysses (and, therefore, inevitably, with Homer, too); a homage and a love-letter, but also, crucially, an intervention. A day in the life of two Indian men abroad--a Uinversity student and his bachelor uncle--a surreal comedy, self-mocking, often hilarious sex, as Chaudhuri explores the immigrant experience, even the colonial experience, as each copes in his own way with alienation, aloneness, and the very art of living. pages. x inches. , Alfred A Knopf, New York.
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