Point About Books English, August: An Indian Story
| Title | : | English, August: An Indian Story |
| Author | : | Upamanyu Chatterjee |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 326 pages |
| Published | : | 2006 by New York Review of Books (first published 1988) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. India. Asian Literature. Indian Literature |
Upamanyu Chatterjee
Paperback | Pages: 326 pages Rating: 3.77 | 5185 Users | 386 Reviews
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Agastya Sen, known to friends by the English name August, is a child of the Indian elite. His friends go to Yale and Harvard. August himself has just landed a prize government job. The job takes him to Madna, “the hottest town in India,” deep in the sticks. There he finds himself surrounded by incompetents and cranks, time wasters, bureaucrats, and crazies. What to do? Get stoned, shirk work, collapse in the heat, stare at the ceiling. Dealing with the locals turns out to be a lot easier for August than living with himself. English, August is a comic masterpiece from contemporary India. Like A Confederacy of Dunces and The Catcher in the Rye, it is both an inspired and hilarious satire and a timeless story of self-discovery.
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| Original Title: | English, August: An Indian Story |
| ISBN: | 1590171799 (ISBN13: 9781590171790) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Rating About Books English, August: An Indian Story
Ratings: 3.77 From 5185 Users | 386 ReviewsWrite Up About Books English, August: An Indian Story
I remember this book as a comic masterpiece. I had read it about 18 years ago - yet remember Madna and the protagonist's hilarious flirt with his own life and the surrounding.A fresh recruit to the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and his friend sit in their car, totally stoned and deliberating the relative merits of being a bureaucrat. Of top importance here is genuine concern of our protagonist's capability in being an efficient administrator. Here is how the conversation goes :Friend : Out there in Madna quite a few people are going to ask you what you're doing in the Administrative Service. Because you don't look the role. You look like a porn film actor, thin
Indecision will be your epitaph. As the statement rung in my ear for more minutes than I cared to count, I stared at the mouth that just uttered it. No, it was not Agastya, the hero of this story but his best friend, Dhrubo, a brain-wracked, stoned, cajoled-to-distinguished young man who spent his time between perusing applications and criticising its submitters in an MNC bank in the megalopolitan city of Delhi. What light was he showing to Agastya, the young conqueror of the Indian
As the title suggests this is a very Indian Story and remains to be so even 30 years after it was first penned. It is heartening as well as uncanny to find having vile, vulgar and vague thoughts is an integral part of any generation and that existential anxiety runs in vein with the incredible experiences (only in Indian can you be shit upon by three different animals while being burnt to a crisp by the midday sun) that sum up our lives making us truly Indian. That being said, I find a lot of
A slap stick comedy with a rude, weird and twisted sense of humor! Abundance of crazy laugh out loud moments thrown around in small chunks here and there... which are bound to catch you off the guard. In spite of all this, the overall plot and story didn't work out well with me and slowly the protagonist became kinda repulsive!!!"Agastya! That's a wonderful name. What does it mean?""It's Sanskrit for one who turns the flush just before he starts pissing, and then tries to finish pissing before
This book keeps you in a trans. It is something which I didnt like reading but at the same time I couldnt keep it down or stop.Apart from the constant philosophical torments that brewed in the mind of the protagonist, there was unnecessary and not-so-needed sexual and pervert thought injected. May be the intention of the author was to make it funny or wry but given the era in which the story has been set, the monologue thoughts, a few conversations & dialogues seemed completely abrupt and
Nearly twenty-five years after it was first published, Upamanyu Chatterjees English, August, remains as contemporary, as relevant and as annoyingly brilliant as it was back then, back when it came out of nowhere to light up the literary fiction scene here that was in a post-Rushdie slump. If one were to ask me to do that obnoxious job of summing-up a literary fiction novel, I would base it more or less, on its old blurb. So English, August is a darkly-comic story of Agastya Sen, a young civil
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