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Chandrahas Choudhury

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Chandrahas Choudhury is an Indian novelist. His novels include Arzee the Dwarf and Clouds. Arzee the Dwarf was shortlisted for the Commonwealth First Book prize.[1] His 2018 novel Clouds was long listed for the JCB Prize for literature.[2] Arzee the Dwarf has received spectacular reviews. In India today, Omair Ahmed writes“About a quarter of the way through Arzee the Dwarf, one of the characters, Dashrath, the wise taxi driver, who supplies dialogues for Bhojpuri movies and loves his metaphors, asks, ‘Do we live the life given to us, or do we really live a kind of dream life? Isn’t our real life really a life of the imagination?’ It is not an original thought, but the success of Chandrahas Choudhury’s debut novel lies in how movingly he manages to bring out this little truth through the life of the eponymous Arzee the dwarf.” ¹The Tin House, in an interview with Chandrahas, describes Arzee the Dwarf as “Intimate, funny, crafty, vernacular…” ². Arzee the Dwarf was selected in 2010 by the magazine World Literature Today as one of the '60 Essential Works of Modern Indian Literature in English³. Samhita Arni, of the magazine Caravan writes,“Chandrahas Choudhury’s debut novel, Arzee the Dwarf, seemed to me to be remarkably different from anything else that has appeared in recent years in South Asian English fiction. Arzee is a welcome change in a literature that has, for the most part, been susceptible to reflecting the narrow, English-speaking world of its writers and many of its readers.” (4). “From the first page, this is a triumph of storytelling in what Chandrahas Choudhury chooses to reveal, and at what precise pace….To quote examples of any of the lyrical, funny or luminous images from this book would be to spoil them for the potential reader.” —Gouri Dange, Outlook (5) "Chaudhury is a master of understatement and suggestion which works to his great advantage.” —Rumina Sethi, The Tribune (India) Unlike the typical melodrama, the nuances of thought and description in the book, and the intricate juxtaposition of comedy and pathos, lift the narrative beyond mere emotional manipulation and into the realm of Shakespearean drama.” —Vinayak Verma, Deccan Herald(7) “Choudhury shows the distinct influence of literary greats like Gunter Grass and Scott Fitzgerald in his creation of an almost-feral, self-obsessed dwarf and description of the larger than life Noor cinema as it ‘projected an air of stern and perpetual rebuke, a grouchy bystander, a great negator’ to the world of men. But his writing is all his own, sparking with energy, and cultivated from the culture of this city.” —Karishma Attari, Daily News & Analysis (8)

References[edit]

  1. "Columnist Chandrahas Choudhury". Arab News.
  2. "JCB Prize for Literature: Two debut writers shine among literary giants". Mint. 5 September 2018.

1.https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/leisure/story/20090727-book-the-god-of-small-things-740334-2009-07-18 2.https://tinhouse.com/an-interview-with-chandrahas-choudhury/ 3.https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2010/november/60-essential-english-language-works-modern-indian-literature 4. Arzee the Dwarf - Samhita Arni PDFwww.samarni.com › pdfs › Arzee_Carav... 5. In This Life Of Raging On https://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/story/in-this-life-of-raging-on/299830 6. https://www.tribuneindia.com/2009/20091227/spectrum/book1.html 7. https://www.deccanherald.com/content/13127/arzee-his-big-world.html 8. https://www.dnaindia.com/lifestyle/report-where-a-midget-gets-the-short-end-of-the-stick-1275181


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