To Silence
Paperback/Fiction 112 pages English Sep 26, 2022
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Don't be deceived by this tardis of a book, its three small monologues contain multitudes. Through the gently detailed lives of its subjects whole civilisations emerge: the fifteenth-century India of the dying and illiterate poet, Kabir; the Stalinist Russia of Chekhov's younger sister, Maria; and the early seventeenth-century, Inquisition-ravaged Italy of the Calabrian theologian and poet, Tommaso Campanella. The characters, at the end of their lives, are haunted by their pasts, and in prose of simple, meditative, elegiac beauty, Jaireth suggests that this nostalgia is neither a longing for a lost place or a lost time, but is, rather, a homelessness in time - his own included - an uneasiness that has driven all that they have and have not done. The book is ultimately about the mystery of creation itself, the silence from which all things come and to which they inevitably return. - John Hughes.
- Author:
- Subhash Jaireth
- Publisher:
- Puncher & Wattmann
- Publication Date:
- Sep 26, 2022
- Number of pages:
- 112 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback/Fiction
- ISBN-10:
- 1921450428
- ISBN-13:
- 9781921450426