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A..comparison..between..that..fairly..accomplished..piece..and..this..often..awkward..effort..shows..again..that..fiction..based..on..fact..is..a..dangerous..thing..to..try.)..Samar..becomes..close..friends..with..Catherine..–..too..close,..eventually…The..Romantics..is..an..ironic..tale..of..people..longing..for..fulfillment..in..cultures..other..than..their..own…Pankaj…Mishra…follows…the…intellectual…trail…of…thiscontested…history…with…both…intelligence…and…moral…clarity….The..Romantics…From…close…and…careful…readings…of…some…mighty…Asian…intellectuals…of…the…last…two…centuries…who…have…rarely…been…placed…in…this…creative…and…daring…conversation…with…each…other,…Pankaj…Mishra…has…discovered…and…revealed,…against…the…grain…of…conventional…and…cliched…bifurcations…of…The…West…and…the…Rest,…a…continental…shift…in…our…historical…consciousness…that…will…define…a…whole…new…spectrum…of…critical…thinking.It…isa…remarkable…sign…of…our…revolutionary…Zeitgeist…that…this…book…should…appear…at…the…time…of…transcontinental…uprisingsfrom…Asia…to…Africa…to…Europe…and…the…Americasto…reveal…the…dawn…of…a…new…hermeneutic…horizon…of…how…we…Asians,…indeed…how…we…humans,…are…to…conceive…ourselves.Hamid…Dabashi,…Professor…of…Iranian…Studies,…Columbia…University….Miss..West..is..Samar's..first..close..introduction..to..the..West,..eponymously..personifying..it..as..she..does…As.the.British.gunned.down.the.last.heirs.to.the.Mughal.Empire,.burned.down.the.Summer.Palace.in.Beijing,.or.humiliated.the.bankrupt.rulers.of.the.Ottoman.Empire,.it.was.clear.that.for.Asia.to.recover.a.vast.intellectual.effort.would.be.required..Trying.to.balance.it.Mishra.has.Rajesh.heroically.identify.with.Flaubert's.Sentimental.Education.and.Edmund.Wilson's.interpretation.of.it..).(Note.that.much.of.the.book.–.and.the.character.of.Rajesh,.and.the.Edmund.Wilson-Flaubert.story.–.is.apparently.based.on.fact..

However,…there…are…several…major…differences…between…the…two…novels….At.twenty.he.is.still.too.young.to.sit.for.the.exam,.and.he.spends.the.time.in.Benares.preparing,.reading,.living.a.somewhat.independent.life..(.).Hearteningly.different.from.the.tricksiness.and.posturing.of.much.recent.Indian.writing,.this.is.a.charming.dbut,.which.makes.a.virtue.of.its.studied.simplicity.".-.Aamer.Hussein,.The.Independent."If.much.of.cosmopolitan.Indian.writing.has.valorized.the.immigrant.and.the.foreign.land,.then.The.Romantics.is.a.celebration.of.the.home.and.its.forgotten.world.".-.Amitava.Kumar,.The.Nation."In.offering.a.well-rehearsed.worthiness,.a.prose.style.that.is.intelligent,.accomplished.and.aspiring.of.literary.status,.Mishra.seems.to.have.overlooked.the.dynamics.of.his.plot..Start…Free…Trial…Can’t…find…the…answer…you're…looking…for?…Ask…a…question…Popular…Topics…A…Farewell…to…Arms…Ernest…Hemingway…A…Midsummer…Night's…Dream…William…Shakespeare…A…Good…Man…Is…Hard…to…Find…Flannery…OConnor…A…Jury…of…Her…Peers…Susan…Glaspell…A…Doll's…House…Henrik…Ibsen…eNotes.com…is…a…resource…used…daily…by…thousands…of…students,…teachers,…professors…and…researchers….By…this…definition,…almost…everyone…Samar…meets…through…his…fellow…lodger…Diana…West…is…a…romantic….She…is…involved…in…a…hopeless…romance…with…a…married…man…(which,…bizarrely,…is…what…keeps…her…in…Benares…….A.timely.corrective&.To.Mishras.credit,.this.book.is.not.a.celebration.of.the.East.and.Eastern.thinkers.in.the.way.that.some.modern.accounts.of.Western.empires.are..whether.intentionally.or.not..tributes.to.marauding.imperialistsNikhil.Kumar,.Independent.on.Sunday..

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