The circle of reason amitav ghosh biography

Amitav Ghosh's fictional world is one of restless narrative motion. His central figures are travelers and diasporic exiles: exemplars of "the migrant sensibility" that Salman Rushdie calls "one of the central themes of this century of displaced persons." If in Rushdie's metaphor "the past is a country from which we have all emigrated," Ghosh's conflation of time and space—and of distinct times and distant places—is even more extreme.

The circle of reason amitav ghosh biography

He treats national borders and conceptual boundaries as permeable fictions to be constantly transgressed. Through the multiple criss-crossings enabled by a free-ranging narrative, discrete binaries of order and category give way to a realm of mirror images and hybrid realities.

Reason becomes passion, going away is also coming home, and the differences between us and them, now and then, here and there are disrupted by the itinerant maps of a roaming imagination.

The Circle of Reason follows Indian characters from a