All About H. Hatterr: A Novel
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Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: good. Markings: none. Binding condition: Binding intact.
One of the most singular and exhilarating novels of the twentieth century, All About H. Hatterr chronicles the misadventures of its half-European, half-Asian protagonist as he wanders across India in a riotous quest for wisdom, enlightenment, and self-understanding. H. Hatterr — part picaresque hero, part cosmic fool — seeks out seven sages of India, each encounter yielding a lesson that unravels almost as quickly as it is learned, propelling him headlong into further chaos and comedic disaster. Written in a breathtaking torrent of hybridised English — slang, legalese, poetry, and invented syntax colliding on every page — the novel presents a literary voice unlike any other in the Indo-English canon. G. V. Desani's singular achievement was immediately recognised upon its first publication in 1948, drawing admiration from T. S. Eliot and E. M. Forster, and later earning the passionate advocacy of Anthony Burgess, whose introduction graces this Bodley Head edition. The novel stands as a foundational text of postcolonial literature, its anarchic language anticipating the linguistic pyrotechnics of Salman Rushdie and beyond. For readers who believe they have encountered every kind of novel, All About H. Hatterr promises to overturn that certainty entirely.
Author: G. V. Desani
Format: Hardback
Published: 1970, The Bodley Head
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: good. Markings: none. Binding condition: Binding intact.
One of the most singular and exhilarating novels of the twentieth century, All About H. Hatterr chronicles the misadventures of its half-European, half-Asian protagonist as he wanders across India in a riotous quest for wisdom, enlightenment, and self-understanding. H. Hatterr — part picaresque hero, part cosmic fool — seeks out seven sages of India, each encounter yielding a lesson that unravels almost as quickly as it is learned, propelling him headlong into further chaos and comedic disaster. Written in a breathtaking torrent of hybridised English — slang, legalese, poetry, and invented syntax colliding on every page — the novel presents a literary voice unlike any other in the Indo-English canon. G. V. Desani's singular achievement was immediately recognised upon its first publication in 1948, drawing admiration from T. S. Eliot and E. M. Forster, and later earning the passionate advocacy of Anthony Burgess, whose introduction graces this Bodley Head edition. The novel stands as a foundational text of postcolonial literature, its anarchic language anticipating the linguistic pyrotechnics of Salman Rushdie and beyond. For readers who believe they have encountered every kind of novel, All About H. Hatterr promises to overturn that certainty entirely.