A novel genre: polylingualism and magical realism in Amitav Ghosh's 'The circle of reason'
This paper traces how Amitav Ghosh's novel The circle of reason (1986) inscribes what might be termed a 'magical real' sensibility of quotidian extreme, wild coincidence and tangential, picaresque epic against bounded ideas of language, history and genre. The perception of a linear sh...
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