. “A rebel? a cynic? a scoundrel? the living myth of personified rage, at the mercy of his neurotic legend? a sorcerer gone wrong? No. Not exclusively. Still another epithet was found for him: a retired criminal.” Bound to violence I read Penguin Classic’s new launch edition of this book this month. This prose isContinue reading “What is your argument for this controversial book?”
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Who is the god of small things?
“She had a deep blue sac under one eye that was bloated like a bubble. As though her eye had tried to do what her lungs couldn’t. Some time close to midnight, the faraway man who lived in her chest had stopped shouting. A platoon of ants carried a dead cockroach sedately through the door,Continue reading “Who is the god of small things?”