The Sculptor in Exile

✍ Scribed by Vaid, Krishna Baldev

• Book ID: 110625188
• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 158 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9789351186632
• ASIN: B00J7JHOTK

✦ Synopsis

The Sculptor in Exile

Krishna Baldev Vaid

Bringing together the best of Vaid’s highly experimental short stories, The Sculptor in Exile makes for exhilarating reading. Rigour and wit inform these complex and transgressive meditations on time, love, death, marriage, ageing, selfhood and creativity. While they vary widely in form, tone and length, recurring through the collection are stories that reflect on the figure of the artist in self-imposed exile. In his explorations of interior darkness, Vaid often pushes his experiments to the edge but never loses his footing.

296 pages

Published April 15th 2014 by Penguin

Review

Stalwart of Hindi literature --The Hindu

About the Author

A major Hindi writer known for his iconoclastic and innovative work, Krishna Baldev Vaid was born in 1927 in Dinga, now in Pakistan. He survived the horrifying carnage that accompanied the partition of the Indian subcontinent, and regards his involuntary transplantation to the Indian side of the border as his most traumatic existential experience.

Vaid was educated at Punjab and Harvard universities, and has taught at Indian and American universities. He has published novels, novellas, short stories, plays, diaries, literary criticism and translations; and his work has been translated and published in English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Russian, Japanese, and several Indian languages.