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News! How much newness does any news have? What news-value do the non-new things carry? There are things, incidents and people that do not make news. They do not possess enough newness for the news-hungry world. These things and beings are useless for the manufacturers of news. Among these manufacturers is a young sub-editor interning with a Marathi newspaper who looks at things that are mundane - no use for the news. Does he discover something in the mundane? Does he find anything more meaningful there than just making up news? This is The Story of Being Useless. A writer writes or types. Where does his writing start and where does it end - and what is in between? What does he want to say and what does he want to hide? What lies beneath this façade of letters and words and sentences? What holds together the structure within? Why is this structure created in the first place? What about the writer who has written this novel or novella? Has he really created something novel or is it just a re-rendering of the old? This is a story of a typist, well, a writer, who wrote 'The Story of Being Useless' and who is writing Three Contexts of a Writer.

About the Author :
AVADHOOT DONGARE started writing fiction in 2007. He has published four novels in Marathi: Svatahala Faltu Samjanyachi Goshta (The Story of Being Useless, 2012), Eka Lekhakache Teen Sandarbha (Three Contexts of a Writer, 2013), Paan, Pani Ni Pravah (Leaf, Water and Flow, 2015), and Bhintivarcha Chashma (Specs on the Wall, 2018). The first novel was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar in 2014. He has also published a critical essay Svatahacha Avakash Tapasatana (Probing One's Space, 2017) about one of the translations he had done as a professional and a book of short stories for children. He blogs at ekregh.blogspot.in. NADEEM KHAN has been a teacher of English since 1973. For more than seven years he worked as Director, Western Regional Centre, Amravati, of the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, an autonomous institute of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India. He has translated into English the writings of well-known Marathi novelists Bhau Padhye and Vishwas Patil, Hindi short-story writer Doodnath Singh, as well as artists Ram Kumar and Jangadh Singh. He has also translated Sathya Saran's My Daughter - My Shakti from English to Hindi. He is a voracious reader and his lectures on a variety of subjects have been very popular in academic and corporate circles for over twenty years.

Review :
'The two novellas - The Story of Being Useless and Three Contexts of a Writer - are also about the act of writing novels. What the novelist writes is not true or false. It goes beyond this. The characters, events taking place in the novel are the creation of the novelist. However, they are entwined with real events. Reality and the writer's perspective merge. Avadhoot Dongare expresses our reality, the politics of living in our times through the stories of ordinary lives. His narration is simple, but subtle. 'These excellent translations, by Nadeem Khan, are a need of the times, enabling the stories to reach out to the world.' VASANT ABAJI DAHAKE, Poet and Critic 'Avadhoot Dongare's Svatahala Faltu Samjanyachi Goshta (The Story of Being Useless) reflects the consciousness of the youth in our contemporary society and the isolation and loneliness which has come to engulf them. The experiences of the youth assume new structural element in the novel and reveal the contradictory pulls driving attitudes of the new generation. The novel is unique in its stylistic exercise.' from the Sahitya Akademi citation 'Dongare's novels needed to be translated urgently. It is a good sign for the creation of a healthy atmosphere for translation of Marathi literature.' Loksatta, 18 May 2019 'This compilation of novellas introduces readers of English to a fresh literary voice, but there is even more reason to celebrate this translation project born in Amravati -- away from the hub and spokes of mainstream publishing industry.' Pune Mirror, 23 May 2019


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9789352907397
  • Publisher: Ratna Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Ratna Books
  • Height: 203 mm
  • No of Pages: 226
  • Returnable: N
  • Series Title: Ratna Translation
  • Sub Title: Novellas
  • Width: 133 mm
  • ISBN-10: 9352907396
  • Publisher Date: 01 Aug 2019
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 13 mm
  • Weight: 313 gr


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