Karan Mahajan Quotes About Books

• We're at an interesting phase of Asian and Asian-American writing, where we might succeed in having readers look at us as creative individuals who write with fury and fire about the world, and in new ways, without having them say things like "I read a really good Indian book," or "That Malaysian fellow writes very well." So I hope by identifying as Indian I can get people who don't usually read "ethnic" or "Indian" literature to read that literature and enjoy it.

  Karan Mahajan

  Libro, Escritura, Personas

  Fuente: therumpus.net

• It's rare that you get to read, let alone teach, an arbitrary canon of your choosing in a tight time setting, and I tore through a fairly wide range of Indian writers, some contemporary - like Arundhati Roy and Salman Rushdie - and others older, like R.K. Narayan. And I think what happened at that stage was that I was forced to take a position in my own writing style that was more fixed, as opposed to reading a book at a time and defining myself in opposition to or in awe of it.

  Karan Mahajan

  Libro, Lectura, Escritura

  Fuente: therumpus.net

• Tengo que admitir que me aterrorizaba el final del libro, precisamente porque voy por ahí diciendo de casi todos los libros que leo: "Se vino abajo al final". Tengo amigos que esperan ridiculizarme para siempre.

  Karan Mahajan

  Libro, Esperando, Para Siempre

  Fuente: therumpus.net

• Estoy más interesado que Philip Roth en entender a las mujeres, aunque lo haga imperfectamente. Pero ese libro, Portnoy's Complaint, es punk literario en este sentido que es raro.

  Karan Mahajan

  Libro, Comprensión, Punk

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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