Ep 288: Chandrahas Choudhury's Country of Literature
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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The Purpose of Literary Criticism
Qot, i could go only so far in allining myself with the values of those newly prominent readers, brackets, my critics. Often, it seemed to me, they took an object of delight and clothed it from top to toe in interpretations so porific drawn. But more often than not, they resceved it down as if dealing with an excited dog, as if literature, for them, was only a stop on the road. And er, that's how it turned and ha ha, ha hm. So i think the task for the writer is to go past your first frontier, where many of the motivations and play at work are actually the imperatives of writing.
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