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The Artist of Disappearance is a 2011 collection of three novellas by Indian-born novelist, short story writer, and professor Anita Desai. Set in contemporary India, regional history and tradition pervade each narrative.
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Book Summary. Award-winning, internationally acclaimed author Anita Desai ruminates on art and memory, illusion and disillusion, and the sharp divide between life's expectations and its realities in three perfectly etched novellas.
The Artist of Disappearance is about Ravi, a mysterious artist who lives in solitude in contact with nature, whose life is disturbed by the arrival of a film crew planning to document environmental destruction in the region.
9 dic 2011 · Both outcomes are evident in the three novellas that make up her new collection, “The Artist of Disappearance.” “The Museum of Final Journeys” describes the early stages of an Indian civil...
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10 gen 2012 · In the three novellas that make up “The Artist of Disappearance,” Anita Desai uses it twice, in differing circumstances and locations, but to the same convincing and plaintive effect.
23 dic 2011 · The Artist of Disappearance, from Indian writer Anita Desai, is a trilogy. All three works dwell on themes of change and permanence, and they illustrate the conflicts and challenges of modern...
Summary. A triptych of beautifully crafted novellas make up Anita Desai's exquisite new book. Set in modern India, but where history still casts a long shadow, the stories move beyond the cities to places still haunted by the past, and to characters who are, each in their own way, masters of self-effacement.
