On Failing (Literary Activism Series)
About The Booka Collection Of Essays That Deal With Various Aspects Of Failure In Creative Endeavour And Output. Various Conceptions Of Form Have, Across Cultures, Embodied The Liberations Of Failing: Synecdoche; The Image; Metaphorall These Arise From A Preferred Inability To Represent Fully.The Essays In This Collection By Novelists, Academics And Film-Makers, Including Sunetra Gupta, Sumana Roy, Michel Chaouli And Anurag Kashyap, Ask Readers To Account For The Attractions Specific To Failing; For Why, And How, It Awakens Our Desire; Why It Is Taboo Today In A Way Quite Different From The Era Before The Market; And To Reassess This History.About The Editoramit Chaudhuri Is An Award-Winning Novelist, Poet, Essayist And Musician.
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