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From: Twentieth Century Literature[(interview date 14 August 1984) In the following interview conducted on August 14, 1984, Ghose describes the reasons for writing each of his novels, discusses authors and works that have influenced his writing, explains...
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From: New Statesman[(review date 10 September 1982) In the following excerpt, Glastonbury remarks that Ghose's style in A New History of Torments is trite and that his outlandish and repetitive use of symbolism is wearisome.] The travels...
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From: Structures of Negation: The Writings of Zulfikar Ghose[(essay date 1993) In the following excerpt, Kanaganayakam examines Figures of Enchantment and The Triple Mirror of the Self in terms of Ghose's feelings of diaspora, noting that Ghose's writing at this point addresses...
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From: Times Literary Supplement[(review date 20 March 1992) In the following review, Hussein provides a brief synopsis of The Triple Mirror of the Self, noting that Ghose's experiments with style and theme are difficult to follow in the beginning of...
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From: Review of Contemporary Fiction[(essay date summer 1989) In the following essay, Rahman examines the importance of Ghose's writing to Pakistani and Indian literature in English, paying special attention to Ghose's poetry and his novel The Murder of...
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From: Los Angeles Times Book Review[(review date 26 August 1984) In the following review, Rubin analyzes the intricate mixture of realism and fantasy in Ghose's Don Bueno.] Why should a Pakistani-born British poet, a novelist who lives in the United...
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From: Review of Contemporary Fiction[(review date 1983) In the following review, the commentator examines Ghose's distinctive use of narration, style, and grammar in Hamlet, Prufrock and Language and Hulme's Investigations into the Bogart Script,...
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From: Literary Criterion[(review date 1996) In the following review of Ghose's autobiography, Confessions of a Native-Alien, Gaur draws parallels between Ghose's feelings of displacement and alienation and the diaspora of people from lands that...
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From: World Literature Today[(review date autumn 1992) In the following review, Dasenbrock comments that The Triple Mirror of the Self is more autobiographical and candid than Ghose's previous novels, noting that although the novel lacks unity,...
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From: Times Literary Supplement[(review date 16 January 1976) In the following review, Barnes observes that Ghose's experimental prose in The Beautiful Empire is difficult to follow and detracts from the story.] "I wandered the streets", says the...
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From: Review of Contemporary Fiction[(review date summer 1989) In the following review, Campbell asserts that The Fiction of Reality is not a piece of criticism, but is, in fact, a novel. Campbell uses other examples from literature to prove that Ghose's...
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From: World Literature Today[(review date winter 1984) In the following review, Hashmi focuses on the symbolic elements in A New History of Torments and praises Ghose's imaginative poetic prose.] Extracting elaborate narratives out of cunning...
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From: World Literature Today[(review date winter 1977) In the following review, Siddiqi praises Ghose's ironic prose in The Beautiful Empire.] The Beautiful Empire is a checkered history of Gregorio Peixoto da Silva Xavier's life during the...
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From: Structures of Negation: The Writings of Zulfikar Ghose[(essay date 1993) In the following excerpt, Kanaganayakam studies the changes in content, tone, style, and form in Ghose's poetry from his earlier poems to more recent endeavors. Kanaganayakam notes Ghose's growing...
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From: World Literature Today[(review date winter 1992) In the following review, Hashmi traces the themes of displacement and exile in Ghose's poetry from his earliest works to his previously unpublished and newer poems collected in Selected Poems.]...
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From: Review of Contemporary Fiction[(essay date summer 1989) In the following essay, Harris analyzes Ghose's poems and studies his use of nature as a metaphor for his inner turmoil and displacement.] I attempted an analysis of Zulfikar Ghose's poems in...
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From: Religion and Literature[(essay date 2011) In the following essay, Shamsie surveys the history of Anglophone literary culture in south Asia, which originally challenged both imperialist designs and “orthodoxies in their own society.” Shamsie...