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On Poets and Others
Octavio Paz,
Rs. 550.00
In these engaging essays, the noted Mexican critic and poet, the Nobel Prize winner for Literature, locks horns with writers, past and present.
Godard
Colin MacCabe,
Rs. 1,100.00
This is a brilliant biography of the almost-forgotten genius of world cinema. The biographer brings to life Godard’s strange and prickly personality.
Midnight’s Diaspora
Rs. 399.00
A distinguished collection of intellectuals, writers and public figures provide fresh insights into the complex political and cultural meanings of Salman Rushdie’s writing – and the celebrated writer responds.
About Looking
John Berger,
Rs. 436.00
In this work the author explores our role as observers to reveal new layers of meaning in what we see. How do the animals we look at in zoos remind us of the relationship between man and beast all lost in the 21st century? And through many other questions he alters the vision of everyone who reads the work.
The Rough Guide
to Shakespeare
Andrew Dickson,
Rs. 935.00
This is the ultimate companion to the world’s greatest playwright. It features coverage of 39 plays, reviews of the best films and audio recordings, features on various topics, detailed look at Shakespeare’s poetry and more.
State of Exception
Giorgio Agamben,
Rs. 808.00
This is a timely and compelling inquiry into the capacity of state power to withdraw the guarantees of legal protection and entitlement, at once abandoning its subjects to the violent whims of law and intensifying state power. This is a provocative book that calls for us to ‘stop the machine’ and breal the violent hold that law lays upon life.
Conversations with
Cezanne
Rs. 1,075.00
The editor of this book has gathered texts by contemporaries of Cezanne, including artists, critics and writers which illuminate that influential painter’s philosophy of art, especially in his late years.
Killing Time
Paul Feyerabend,
Rs. 1.024.00
Finished only weeks before his death in 1994 this is a self-portrait of one of the century’s most original and influential intellectuals. It is the story of Feyerabend’s extraordinary life told with tenderness, honesty and joy.
Chaplin: The
Tramp’s Odyssey
Simon Louvish,
Rs. 1,295.00
This book is an epic journey, summing up the roots of comedy and its appeal to audiences everywhere, who revelled in Chaplin’s raw energy, his ceaseless struggle against adversity, and his capacity to represent our own fears, dreams, and hopes.
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