Rohinton Mistry's Acceptance Speech-2012 Neustadt Festival
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- Опубликовано: 7 янв 2013
- Rohinton Mistry won the 2012 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, and gave this acceptance speech at the Neustadt Festival in September 2012 at the University of Oklahoma. More on the Neustadt Prize and festival at www.neustadtfestival.org.
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A Fine Balance is one of the greatest books of all time.
I just finished "A Fine Balance" and was incredibly affected by it. I became the fifth inhabitant of that special place and lived and died with the trials and tribulations of my friends in the book. It is an eye-opening story to say the least with sections that are very hard to endure; however, the trial is completely worth it. I would look forward to a movie if someone decided to really make it epic.
At 1:10 when this magical writer Rohinton Mistry says "who am I to quarrel with it" I'm going to guess that there was no irony behind it, given his very humble demeanor. The unexpected reaction of the crowd (he looks up and stares) reveals the differences between the jaded cynicism of a Western crowd and the pure, humble stance of an Easterner. This cynicism is a disease which Mistry does not suffer from, and it frees him to write a magnificent novel such as A Fine Balance.
Congratulations to you one of the most gentlemen writers of our beloved world today !
I just started A Fine Balance and I love it. being a serious aficionado of Anglo-Indian fiction. love him too. great sense of humour and humility.
Hunh. As I might have expected. The most accomplished practitioner of the novel today. Incredibly clever, he relies on the petri dish of his native Bombay for these stories which refuse to go away. He could have tackled Toronto, he is a student of Oklahoma as we see at the peculiarly honest childlike level he shows here. But he chose Bombay and The Emergency. Exotic only if you find sleeping rough on an empty stomach exotic. There is no one else like him, a brilliant man who realizes, like some of his brilliant characters, that this is no guarantee. Let us ensure this man does well, not "taken care of" in the manner Mrs Gandhi and all her political bedfellows, past and present, would doubtless have in mind.
Brilliant author.
Brilliant speech !
Love him so much
If I correctly remember I have his ' such a long journey ' from the Poona army library in 2005.
talk a bit about your home country too. it is the source of your work so far.