Calcutta a Cultural and Literary Guide

Krishna Dutta (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2009 | 2nd Revised edition
Signal Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-904955-46-7 (ISBN)

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In the popular imagination, Calcutta is a packed and pestilential sprawl, made notorious by the Black Hole and the works of Mother Teresa. Kipling called it a City of Dreadful Night, and a century later V.S. Naipaul, Gnter Grass and Louis Malle revived its hellish image. This is the place where the West first truly encountered the East, founded in the 1690s by East India Company. It was also home to extraordinary Bengalis such as Rabindranath Tagore, the first Asian Nobel laureate, and Satyajit Ray, among the geniuses of world cinema. Above all, Calcutta is a city of extremes, where exquisite refinement rubs shoulders with coarse commercialism and savage political violence.

KRISHNA DUTTA was born and brought up in Calcutta. She has translated Bengali literature and written several books on Rabindranath Tagore.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	27.1.2009
Zusatzinfo	30
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Bildbände ► Asien
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-904955-46-0 / 1904955460
ISBN-13	978-1-904955-46-7 / 9781904955467
Zustand	Neuware