In Praise of Laziness and Other Essays
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In Praise of Laziness and Other Essays

  1. 168 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

In Praise of Laziness and Other Essays

About this book

A cross between a collection of philosophical investigations and idle banter, In Praise of Laziness and Other Essays, is a celebration of what Milan Kundera defined as 'Mystification: the active form of refusing to take the world seriously'. From an Erasmian encomium to laziness, a literary forensic report on the adult years of Sukumar Ray's Pagla Dashu and Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, the joys of staying indoors, to the exquisite pleasures of an electric blanket—and with a science fiction story on colonisation bunged in—this book is the equivalent of a meandering river in which the reader dips his or her toes in, not knowing whether a dolphin will come by or a piranha take a snap. This is a book that's equal parts serious as well as frivolous, except you never quite know which partsarewhich.

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Information

Publisher
S&S India
Year
2023
eBook ISBN
9788194643081
Edition
0
Topic
Philosophy

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. By Way of Introduction
  4. In Praise of Laziness
  5. A Man of The Great Indoors
  6. I Singe the Body Electric
  7. Becoming Adult
  8. Why I Am Not A Miso Soup
  9. Felumenon, A Bhadralok Franchise
  10. Everybody Loves a Good Mourning
  11. The Purge a.k.a. The Dry Day
  12. Roti Rising
  13. What Do You Know of My Football Who Only Football Know?
  14. This Man’s Place Is Not in the Kitchen
  15. Acknowledgements
  16. Copyright