The Romantics (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Pankaj Mishra
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1989-1996
- Setting: Benares, Pondicherry, and Dharamshala, India
- Principal Characters: Samar, Diana West, Catherine, Anand, Rajesh, Mark, Debbie
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Love or romance, Twentieth century, Music or musicians, Marriage, Adultery, India or East Indian people, Hindus or Hinduism, 1990’s, Romanticism, Buddhism
- Locales: India
Although The Romantics is Pankaj Mishra’s first novel, it establishes him as one of India’s literary leaders. His nonfiction and criticism are highly regarded, and he is also admired for having discovered such outstanding young novelists as Arundhati Roy, who was awarded the Booker Prize for The God of Small Things (1997), and Raj Kamal Jha, whose book The Blue Bedspread (1999) has been acclaimed by critics.
The Romantics is patterned on another coming-of-age novel, L’Éducation sentimentale (1869; Sentimental Education, 1898), by...
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