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A note from the publisher
In stealth. And with camouflage.
The ants began their march.
Millions of feet.
Dipped in black.
Crossing the landscape.
Snow-filled expanse.
Of white.
Their footprints.
A gigantic invasion.
Of the alphabet.
Rewriting the history of the land.
Naveen Kishore, Seagull Books
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To mark the 100 years of the Russian Revolution, Seagull Bookstore brings to you a curated list of 100 titles from across the world!
Writings of Resistance
On sale from 18 September 2017 to 30 November 2017
Phone: +91 33 24765865
To order online please write to books@seagullindia.com
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Directorate of Art and Culture, Govt. of Goa
and The Seagull Foundation for the Arts, Calcutta
cordially invite you to the opening of
Sketches, Scribbles, Drawings
by
K. G. Subramanyan
T
hursday, 5 October 2017, 4.30 p.m.
at Art Gallery, Sanskruti Bhavan, Patto, Panaji - Goa
The exhibition will be inaugurated by
Shri Govind Gaude
Hon'ble Minister for Art & Culture, Government of Goa.
The exhibition will be on view till Tuesday, 31 October 2017. 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. daily (except Sundays and Public holidays)
Tel: 0832- 2404606 to 611 | email: aco6-dac.goa@nic.in
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SEAGULL BOOKS AT FRANKFURT BOOK FAIR
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Come, meet us at the 69th Frankfurt Book Fair
11 - 15 October 2017
Frankfurt Stand Hall 6.2 D 100
New Books, Great Coffee and yet another masterpiece of a catalogue!
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On Thursday, 7 September 2017, ILF Samanvay Translations Series-2017 in collaboration with Seagull Books held readings and a conversation between renowned Kannada writer and folklorist, Jnanpeeth-awardee
Chandrasekhar Kambar and his translator Krishna Manavalli on the occasion of the release of his novel 'Karimayi', published by Seagull Books.
Writer H. S. Shivaprakash also joined the conversation held at
The Amaltas, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi,
Karimayi
Chandrasekhar Kambar
Translated by Krishna Manavalli
Chandrasekhar Kambar is one of the most accomplished Indian writers working today. In each of Kambar's novels, the archetypical Mother, Karimayi, is at the centre. The narrative of
Karimayi moves through an astounding time span, beginning with the mythopoetic times of Goddess Karimayi's birth and continuing through the historical and cultural shifts in the life of a small rural community called Shivapura during the British colonial era.
Karimayi breaks the familiar narrative of an idyllic and traditional village community being destroyed by the incursion of modernity. Instead, the multilayered narrative of
Karimayi weaves everything into itself, the story of the village's past, the myth of Karimayi, the disorder that sets in with the invasion of colonial modernity and the lure of the city and, most importantly, of the disruption of another form of 'native' modernity that the village community has already begun to incorporate into its rhythms of life. Cleverly challenging colonial cartography, Kambar's book plays with the idea of an eternal India that exists between myth and reality.
Chandrasekhar Kambar
, a highly acclaimed dramatist, poet, cultural critic and fiction writer in Kannada, was awarded India's highest literary award, Jnanpeeth, in 2010. Along with his acclaimed novels, Kambar has also written many critical works on folk theatre and literature.
Krishna Manavalli
is currently a professor of English at Karnatak University, Dharwad, India. She is a translator of Kannada literary and cultural writings into English and also writes about contemporary Kannada literature in leading Indian newspapers.
ISBN : 9780857423900
Rs 599 $24.50 £17 (HB)
Available at all leading bookstores across India, Seagull Books Store, Calcutta and online in India
here and world
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Duncan Fallowell reviews for
The Spectator Seagull Books' new gigantic publication, Michel Leiris'
Phantom Africa, translated from the French by Brent Hayes Edwards, finally available in English:
'Every so often a monster comes along. Here's one - but a monster of fact not fiction, over 700 pages recounting the French expedition from Dakar to Djibouti 1931-33. It doesn't matter that this travel diary - part field study, part confessional, first published in 1934 - has arrived so late for an English readership. It comes with the additional resonance of a lost world.'
Melissa Beck reviews Elfriede Jelinek's
Charges (translated by Gitta Honegger, published recently by Seagull Books) for
World Literature Today
:
'Jelinek has brilliantly adopted the medium of the ancient Greek poets in order to enlighten us about those who have been exiled from their homes and cannot return safely. Although she uses the scenario that takes place in her hometown as the backdrop for her drama, Jelinek chooses not to mention Vienna or other specific place names in her text; she makes her themes of displacement, fear, and privilege universal, ones that can be applied to any of the current refugee crises we see playing out on a daily basis in various parts of the world.'
Seagull Books' three-volume translation of Georg Trakl's poetry is celebrated by the The New York Review of Books:
'Both philosophers [Wittgenstein and Heidegger . . . ] found themselves, at pivotal moments in their careers, turning to the arresting work of the early twentieth-century Austrian poet Georg Trakl (1887-1914). Not surprisingly, Wittgenstein and Heidegger responded to Trakl's striking and still mysterious poems in sharply divergent-one might almost say opposite-ways. James Reidel's recently completed three-volume translation of Trakl's major work, timed to coincide with the centennial of the poet's suicide, allows readers to speculate on what Heidegger and Wittgenstein (along with many other poetry-lovers) may have found so alluring.'
Our Trakl Series has also been reviewed by JM Schreiber on his blog
roughghosts.com:
'The first two volumes of Our Trakl represent complete collections of poems, as selected and prepared by the poet:
Poems (Gedichte, 1913) and
Sebastian Dreaming (Sebastian im Traum, published posthumously in 1915). The third and final part,
A Skeleton Plays Violin, gathers Trakl's early and late published works, unpublished pieces, and significant variants and derivations, in yet another beautifully designed edition. . . . The extensive central sections of
A Skeleton Plays Violin, which feature unpublished poems and versions of published pieces, offer a window into the refining of Trakl's imagination and craft. We see him spinning, again and again, the phrases, imagery, and themes he wishes to perfect-the crimson mouth, the screaming faun, the turn of the season, the quality of light-and watch the tightening of his language as the final version is formed. Reidel's selection covers a wide terrain, yet is careful to bring together those variants and completed works that highlight Trakl's growth and maturity over time. It is impossible though, not to notice that his work only seems to grow darker.'
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We recently concluded the highly successful third annual History for Peace
conference,
The Idea of India, which was held on 14, 15, 16 and 17 August 2017, in Calcutta.
The opening session, a conversation between Romila Thapar and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, a public event, saw an attendance of over 400 people. Speakers at the
conference, which had participants from all over the country, included Romila Thapar, Krishna Kumar, Sudhanva Deshpande, T. Sanathanan, Hari Vasudevan, Shireen Maswood, Vijay Prashad, Jerry Pinto, Ravish Kumar and many more. Discussions on what shapes our idea of India, curriculum, textbooks, art, literature and photography took place over the three days.
Engaging further with the valuable discussions, thoughts and ideas that were shared at the
conference, we plan to organise a series of workshops that explore ways of incorporating these into the practice of teaching history. The first in the series '
Conference to
Classroom', will be organised in association with Modern Academy of Continuing Education (MACE) and facilitated by educators from Modern High School for Girls- Ms. S. Saha, Ms. A. Sen, Ms. C. De Bakshi, Ms. S. Biswas and Ms. S. Chatterjee-based on sessions they attended at the
conference.
Conference to Classroom - Chapter 1
A series of History for Peace workshops
Date: Monday, 18 September 2017
Venue: Modern Academy for Continuing Education (MACE)
4th Floor,
78, Syed Amir Ali Avenue,
Kolkata
- 19
Time: 3.30 p.m. to 5.15 p.m.
For details call 91 33 24556943
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