Tag: Short Fiction Writers
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The Master of the Unspoken. Remarks on Nirmal Verma
by Michael K. Iwoleit Among the Hindi writers of his generation Nirmal Verma probably had the closest affinity to Europe and European literature. Decades before exile and alienation became a…
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Uncle Saadat and the Great Manto
by Michael K. Iwoleit In his moving memoir „Uncle Manto“ Hamid Jalal draws a distinctive line between the private man he knew and the public figure Manto. Manto – that…
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“But I did love!…” – James Tiptree, jr. and the World’s Greatest Science Fiction Story
by Michael K. Iwoleit Yes, I know. There is no such thing as the world’s greatest science fiction story. There is no single greatest novel, no greatest opera, no greatest…
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The Turkish Chekhov: Some Remarks on Sait Faik
by Michael K. Iwoleit It’s an irony that a man who carved out such a humble, peripheral existence, who never really managed to establish himself in ordinary life, who prefered…