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A Ved Mehta Reader

A Ved Mehta Reader

Mehta, Ved

Paperback

Letters & Essays

ISBN10: 0300075618
ISBN13: 9780300075618
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: Aug 11 1998
Pages: 416
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.06 Width: 5.48 Depth: 8.24
Language: English
Unsurpassed as a prose stylist, Ved Mehta is an acknowledged master of the essay form. In this book--the first special collection of Mehta s outstanding writings--the distinguished author demonstrates a wide range of possibilities available to the narrative and descriptive writer today. Addressing subjects that range from religion to politics and on to education, and writing with eloquence and high style, Mehta here offers a sampling of his works.

Mehta provides a splendid, insightful introduction on the craft of the essay, meditating on the long history and diverse purposes of the form and on the struggle of learning to write in it himself. In the eight reportorial, autobiographical, and reflective essays that follow--each a self-contained examination of cultural, intellectual, or personal themes--he writes on his experience of becoming an American citizen; on Christian theology, with a focus on Dietrich Bonhoeffer; on Calcutta and the poorest of the Indian poor; on the disastrous fates of three of Mehta s brilliant Oxford contemporaries; and on a variety of other subjects.

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