by Amitav Ghosh · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782020120944
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«Les feux du Bengale» is the novel by Amitav Ghosh published by Seuil in paperback, with 413 pages, in French.
The novel interweaves the lives of Alu, a weaving prodigy, and his uncle Balaram, a phrenologist admirer of Louis Pasteur, in rural India where they try to impose science and rationalism. After a tragic turn, the story follows Alu through India, Arabia and Africa in a picaresque adventure with echoes of The Thousand and One Nights.
French translation of «The Circle of Reason», original novel from 1986; this edition, translated by Christiane Bessie, was awarded the Prix Médicis étranger in 1990.
For readers of literary and historical fiction interested in India and in stories combining rationalism, picaresque and exoticism.
Amitav Ghosh is an American writer. He won the 54th Jnanpith award in 2018, India's highest literary honour. Ghosh's ambitious novels use complex narrative strategies to probe the nature of national and personal identity, particularly of the people of India and South Asia. He has written historical fiction and non-fiction works discussing topics such as colonialism and climate change.
