On Tagore

Amit Chaudhuri is the author of five highly acclaimed novels, of which A Strange and Sublime Address, Afternoon Raag, Freedom Song, and A New World won, between them, the Commonwealth Writers Prize, the Betty Trask Prize, the Encore Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, and the Government of India’s Sahitya Akademi Award; his latest novel is The Immortals. He is also a poet, an acclaimed musician, and a highly regarded critic, the author of D. H. Lawrence and ‘Difference’ and Clearing a Space. He has edited the Picador Book of Modern Indian Literature and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of East Anglia. Amit Chaudhuri lives in Calcutta and Norwich.

«Remarkably far-reaching [...] Imaginative and original.» (Amartya Sen)«Few have written as well on Tagore’s aesthetic as Amit Chaudhuri [...] in ‘On Tagore’.» (Pankaj Mishra, in ‘From the Ruins of Empire’)«A powerfully discerning and intelligent critic.» (Tom Paulin)«Superbly original.» (Terry Eagleton, London Review of Books)

• Contents: The Anniversary Begins – The Flute of Modernity – A Pact with Nature – Poetry as Polemic – ‘Nothing but a Poet’.