Ved Mehta, Fly and the Fly-bottle: Encounters with British Intellectuals

Konrad Czynski (Minnesota State University)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 10.3.5: South Asian Diasporic Literature and Culture, 1800-present.
Vol. editors: Claire Gallien (Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3), Pavan Kumar Malreddy (J W Goethe University of Frankfurt), Delphine Munos (Université de Liège), Muneeza Shamsie (Independent Scholar - Asia), Niaz Zaman (Independent University Bangladesh)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1963

Places

India (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Non-Fiction
- Biography (literary)
- Essay Collection

Resources

Introduction

In the years 1961-62, Ved Mehta, celebrated journalist, memoirist, and intellectual in his own right, wrote a series of articles for The New Yorker magazine that recounted, with vivid description and lively dialogue-transcriptions, his lengthy conversations with philosophers and historians associated with Oxford and Cambridge universities, the London School of Economics, and New College, London. The articles were published in book-form in 1963 (Atlantic Monthly Press) as Fly and the Fly-Bottle: Encounters with British Intellectuals. In 1965 it appeared in paperback as a Pelican Book; in 1983 it was reissued by Columbia University Press as a Morningside Book with a 7-page …

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Citation: Czynski, Konrad. "Fly and the Fly-bottle: Encounters with British Intellectuals". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 29 December 2011 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=12131, accessed 23 November 2024.]

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