TheStorytellersBazaar:Favourite Author
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shouldn't happen in real life", and return home filled with anger against the actual state of affairs. Samuel BeckettThe writer of nothingness and absurdity, of the ultimate and irredeemable meaninglessness of human life - he makes you see shit in every little hole you could hide yourself in. Chinua Achebe"Until the lions have their own historians," Chinua Achebe says, "the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter." Achebe is the historian of the hunted. Colonization and racism are recurring themes in his work. Saadat Hasan MantoA progressive South Asian writer whose short stories like "Mozail" and "Thanda Gosht" amongst many others, hold up a mirror to the stark bitter reality of a morally defunct society. Harold Pinter"The Caretaker","The Birthday Party","Ashes to Ashes" are amongst his most famous plays. The confounding thought processes punctuated by the famous 'Pinter Pause' (a term coined as a result of his works) reflect a fragmentary, isolated view of human nature. |
