An Acre of green grass and other English writings of Buddhadeva Bose /
Bose, Buddhadeva
An Acre of green grass and other English writings of Buddhadeva Bose / edited by Rosinka Chaudhuri. - New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2018. - xxxii, 330p. ; 22cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Buddhadeva Bose received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1967 and was felicitated with the Padma Bhushan in 1970. Few realize that Bose was also one of the best writers of English prose in modern Indian writing in English.This book brings together, for the first time, a selection of his writings in the English language. Boseଓs subjects range from world literature, Bengali writers and Tagore, to Bengali gastronomy, Picasso and the films of Charlie Chaplin. These wide-ranging and diverse essays are not only a delight to read, they are also some of the best literary criticisms written by an Indian critic since Independence.
9780199483600 0199483604
Library of Congress -- New Delhi Overseas Office
2017-353496
Tagore, Rabindranath, 1861-1941 --Criticism and interpretation.
Bengali literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Literature--History and criticism.
PK1708 / .B63 2018
891.4409 / BOS
An Acre of green grass and other English writings of Buddhadeva Bose / edited by Rosinka Chaudhuri. - New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2018. - xxxii, 330p. ; 22cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Buddhadeva Bose received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1967 and was felicitated with the Padma Bhushan in 1970. Few realize that Bose was also one of the best writers of English prose in modern Indian writing in English.This book brings together, for the first time, a selection of his writings in the English language. Boseଓs subjects range from world literature, Bengali writers and Tagore, to Bengali gastronomy, Picasso and the films of Charlie Chaplin. These wide-ranging and diverse essays are not only a delight to read, they are also some of the best literary criticisms written by an Indian critic since Independence.
9780199483600 0199483604
Library of Congress -- New Delhi Overseas Office
2017-353496
Tagore, Rabindranath, 1861-1941 --Criticism and interpretation.
Bengali literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Literature--History and criticism.
PK1708 / .B63 2018
891.4409 / BOS