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Manto-Saheb: Friends and Enemies on the Great Maverick

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AuthorTranslated by Vibha Chauhan and Khalid Alvi
ISBN9789388070256
Published LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2018
PublisherSpeaking Tiger
BindingPaperback
Pages296
Ships By2-3 days
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?Saadat Hasan Manto has a good claim to be considered the greatest South Asian writer of the 20th century? [He] incarnated the exuberance, the madness, the alcoholic delirium of his time???Suketu Mehta, The New York Times

This remarkable anthology brings together stories about Saadat Hasan Manto, essayist, scriptwriter, and a master of the short story, by his friends, family and rivals?among others, Ismat Chughtai, Upendranath Ashk, Balwant Gargi, Krishan Chander, his daughter Nuzhat and nephew Hamid Jalal. These are accounts of grand friendships and quarrels, protracted drinking bouts, cutthroat rivalries in the world of Urdu letters, and intense engagement with issues of that turbulent age. Together, they form an unprecedented portrait of the literary and film worlds of the time, and of the great cities of Bombay, Delhi and Lahore.

They also offer a glimpse of the making of a legend even as they reveal Manto as a complex man of many contradictions. A devoted husband and father, he was as comfortable at home as he was at prostitutes? quarters, seeking new material. Generous to a fault, he freely gave away his earnings and often put his family in financial jeopardy. Fiercely competitive and an outspoken critic of others? writing, he brooked no criticism of his own, at times choosing to sever ties rather than have his words tampered with. And, for much of his adult life, right until the end, Manto was an alcoholic who fiercely defended his choice to remain one.

Honest, frank and personal, at times sentimental, and critical?even gossipy?at others, the pieces in Manto-Saheb constitute an unparalleled, multi-faceted biography of a genius

About the author
Dr Vibha Chauhan taught English literature at Zakir Husain Delhi College and is at present Principal of Kirori Mal College, Delhi University.Dr Khalid Alvi, poet, critic and Urdu scholar, taught Urdu literature at Zakir Husain Delhi College. He is the author of twelve books, and co-translated, with Vibha Chauhan, Angarey: Nine Stories and a Play.

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