All About H Hatterr / G. V. Desani

By:

Desani, G.V

Language: English Series: aleph classicsPublication details: New Delhi: Aleph Book Company, 2018Edition: 1st editionDescription: 289 pages, 20cmISBN:

9789387561441

Subject(s):

Classics

DDC classification:

823.914 DES

Summary: Wildly funny and very bizarre, All About H. Hatterr is one of the most eccentric and 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. In the course of visiting seven Oriental cities, he consults with seven sages, each of whom specializes in a different aspect of 'Living. Each teacher delivers himself of a great 'Generality, each great Generality launches a new great 'Adventure, from each of which Hatterr escapes not so much greatly edified as by the skin of his teeth. The book is a comic extravaganza. Salman Rushdie says, 'Hatterrs dazzling, puzzling, leaping prose is the first genuine effort to go beyond the Englishness of the English language..

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Barcode
English Books	Anna Centenary Library 4TH FLOOR, B WING	823.914 DES (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	699492
English Books	Anna Centenary Library 4TH FLOOR, B WING	823.914 DES (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	699493

Wildly funny and very bizarre, All About H. Hatterr is one of the most eccentric and 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. In the course of visiting seven Oriental cities, he consults with seven sages, each of whom specializes in a different aspect of 'Living. Each teacher delivers himself of a great 'Generality, each great Generality launches a new great 'Adventure, from each of which Hatterr escapes not so much greatly edified as by the skin of his teeth. The book is a comic extravaganza. Salman Rushdie says, 'Hatterrs dazzling, puzzling, leaping prose is the first genuine effort to go beyond the Englishness of the English language..

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