Literary

WG Sebald’s early critical essays mine his great literary themes – exile, trauma, memory and war

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WG Sebald’s early critical essays mine his great literary themes – exile, trauma, memory and war

[ad_1] “Author as well as professor,” was how Winfried Georg (“Max”) Sebald styled himself in the note attached to an article he contributed to a 1990 issue of the experimental Austrian journal, Trans-Garde. Sebald had long harboured a desire to be an author and had a clear plan for becoming one. It included both teaching … Read more

Four writers on ten years of Amit Chaudhuri’s ‘Literary Activism’

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Four writers on ten years of Amit Chaudhuri’s ‘Literary Activism’

[ad_1] In 2014, writer and academic Amit Chaudhuri wrote the mission statement on “literary activism” – as the starting point of the project. It began in 2014 with a series of annual symposia with Ashoka University. Its aim was to create a space for the kind of discussion on creativity no longer available in mainstream … Read more