Jhumpa Lahiri on Writing, Translation, and Crossing Between Cultures (Live at Mason)
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Is It a Parallel, or an Influence in Your Work?
Tegor is a towering giant in bengali intellectual history. In your stories, every now and then someone's reading his poems. There's a lot of themes from him that are in your work,. Like home ind the world, this odd mix of tensions between the cosmopolitan and the particular. He was a kind of polymath. He studied many things, worked in different forms.
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