Spending nights in a hotel room with nothing to do meant that I rediscovered my love of reading actual paper books. For me its an expensive hobby. My reading speed of 350 words per minute meant that I finished the India Unbound book I mention below in 2 nights. At that rate of devouring books, a few hundred bucks per book soon add up to real money. I suppose this bad habit will soon be cured.<\/p>\n
Here is a quiz. Can any of my readers identify this passage? Who is the author and what is the context?<\/p>\n
“All great literature must echo the soul of man. The struggles, agonies and anguish in the soul of the individual must be reflected in the work, against the background of historical and social convulsions of the countries in which the individual finds himself tossed about as a helpless victim. All the grimness of existence must find a place in a writer’s work. Above all, a certain degree of obscurity and difficulty of idiom in the text enhances the stature of a literary work.<\/p>\n
“Applying these tests, Narayan’s work fails. His writing is too simple, and too readable, requiring no effort on the part of the reader. Mere readability is not enough. A reader must be put to work and labour hard to get at the meaning of the sentence; only then can he feel triumphant at having mastered a page. <\/small><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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