Book Review | An insightful biography of a Hindi thought pioneer
Deccan ChronicleVineet Gill’s Here and Hereafter: Nirmal Verma’s Life in Literature is an intellectual brew of personalised interpretation and the literary biography of the illustrious Hindi writer-thinker, Nirmal Verma. If the former can be attributed to Vineet’s retrospective devotion to the towering figure of modern Hindi literature Nirmal Verma, the latter brings out the complex changes in the landscape of Hindi/global writing. Those who are less initiated into the world of literary criticism but love Nirmal Verma might find the work rather heavy going in deciphering the merit of multiple allusions to a cosmopolitan literary world and the consequent propositions Vineet arrives at in his close reading of myriad associations that take on deep symbolic resonances. His tapestried narrative unlatches the doors of perception in the pursuit of artistic truths and gives readers leads into the nuances of Nirmal Verma’s spellbinding world of dusk-veiled, nostalgia-dripping contemplation where the intellectual space is defined through the persistence of two qualities: transcendental homelessness and restless wanderings.
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