The Story of Being Useless & Three Contexts of a Writer: Novellas
Language: English
Published by Ratna Books 2019-08, 2019
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- Title
- The Story of Being Useless & Three Contexts of a Writer: Novellas
- Author
- Dongare, Avadhoot
- Publisher
- Ratna Books 2019-08
- Publication year
- 2019
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- PF
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 9352907396
- ISBN 13
- 9789352907397
News! How much newness does any news have? What news-value do the non-new things carry? There are things, incidents and people that do not make news. They do not possess enough newness for the news-hungry world. These things and beings are useless for the manufacturers of news.
Among these manufacturers is a young sub-editor interning with a Marathi newspaper who looks at things that are mundane – no use for the news. Does he discover something in the mundane? Does he find anything more meaningful there than just making up news? This is The Story of Being Useless.
A writer writes or types. Where does his writing start and where does it end – and what is in between? What does he want to say and what does he want to hide? What lies beneath this façade of letters and words and sentences? What holds together the structure within? Why is this structure created in the first place? What about the writer who has written this novel or novella? Has he really created something novel or is it just a re-rendering of the old?
This is a story of a typist, well, a writer, who wrote ‘The Story of Being Useless’ and who is writing Three Contexts of a Writer.
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About the Author
NADEEM KHAN has been a teacher of English since 1973. For more than seven years he worked as Director, Western Regional Centre, Amravati, of the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, an autonomous institute of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India. He has translated into English the writings of well-known Marathi novelists Bhau Padhye and Vishwas Patil, Hindi short-story writer Doodnath Singh, as well as artists Ram Kumar and Jangadh Singh. He has also translated Sathya Saran's My Daughter - My Shakti from English to Hindi. He is a voracious reader and his lectures on a variety of subjects have been very popular in academic and corporate circles for over twenty years.
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