Arun Joshi, The City and the River

Pier Paolo Piciucco (Università Degli Studi di Torino)

Ed. by John Thieme, University of East Anglia
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 10.3.1.03: Indian Writing and Culture: Post-colonial, 1947-present.
Vol. editors: Claire Gallien (Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3), Pavan Kumar Malreddy (J W Goethe University of Frankfurt), Delphine Munos (Université de Liège)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1990

Places

India (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

Resources

The City and the River, Joshi’s last novel, came out some ten years after The Last Labyrinth, a considerable span of time if one takes into consideration that the novelist took only a little more than a decade to publish his other four novels, a collection of short stories and a book illustrating the history of the philanthropic institution he worked for. The passage from the Eighties to the Nineties in India, however, marks a significant shift in the tastes and orientation of the reading public as far as fiction written in English was concerned. The arrival, and enormous success, of Rushdie’s novels had caused ferment in what had been a static situation and it is likely that The City and the River embodied a …

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Citation: Piciucco, Pier Paolo. "The City and the River". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 05 February 2004 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=14906, accessed 22 November 2024.]

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