Seagull Books CATALOGUE 2020 Featuring Titles by Peter Handke, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2019 & Other Nobel Laureates Through the Years
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Seagull Books CATALOGUE 2020 Featuring titles by Peter Handke, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2019 & other Nobel laureates through the years. (PAGE 17-23) THE Celebrating the fantastic diversity of LGBTQ+ lives across countries, languages, Introducing PRIDE centuries and identities, with the conviction that queer pride comes from its unabashed LIST expression. (PAGE 71-75) Seagull Books, in collaboration with Goethe-Institut, is delighted to launch The Seagull The Seagull Library of German Literature— Library of a carefully curated and beautifully designed German collection of English translations of German Literature books in affordable paperback format. (PAGE 43-46) ALSO INTRODUCING The Seagull Library of French Literature. (PAGE 47-51) CONTENTS Nabarun Bhattacharya 3 Ulrike Almut Sandig 39 Sumanta Banerjee 4 Hans Magnus Enzensberger 40 Neha Singh, Priya Sebastian 7 Raoul Schrott 41 Vimala Devi 8 The Seagull Library of German Literature 43 Anurima Banerji 9 The Seagull Library of French Literature 47 Satyajit Ray 10 Charles Baudelaire 52 Arunava Sinha (ed.) 11 Yves Bonnefoy 53 Mahasweta Devi 12 Dana Grigorcea 56 K. G. Subramanyan 14 Dorothee Elmiger 57 Trailokyanath Mukhopadhyay 16 Philippe Jaccottet 58 Pallavi Aiyar (ed.) 16 Michel Layaz 59 Peter Handke 18 Andrea Cavalletti 61 Mo Yan 20 Maurizio Torchio 62 Herta Müller 21 Paolo Volponi 63 J. M. G. Le Clézio 21 Nancy Naomi Carlson 65 Elfriede Jelinek 22 Rachel Shihor 66 Imre Kertész 22 Sonallah Ibrahim 67 Maryse Condé 23 Abdallah Saaf 68 Ngugi Wa Thiong’o 24 Salah Al Hamdani 69 Michel Leiris 25 The Pride List 71 Abdourahman A. Waberi 26 Theresa Smalec 76 Brigitte Reimann 29 Lee Breuer 77 Navid Kermani 30 Rachel Bowditch, Abbas Khider 31 Pegge Vissicaro (eds) 77 Georg Baselitz, Alexander Kluge 32 Samer Al-Saber, Alexander Kluge 33 Gary M. English (eds) 78 Anselm Kiefer 34 Matt Cornish (ed.) 79 Max Neumann, Joachim Sartorius 35 Ingvild Rishøi 81 Franz Fühmann 36 Matéi Visniec 82 Michael Krüger 37 Krisztina Tóth 83 Ilse Aichinger 38 PRAISE FOR HERBERT ‘The grim milieu is graced ‘Banerjee’s acrobatic translation is with something gentler, both enormously fun and true to the more playful. On top of that, radical content.’ Bhattacharya tosses in rhyme. —ASYMPTOTE There are even echoes of T. S. Eliot. Such effects attest ‘Harbart reads like Rainer Maria to the care and sensitivity of Rilke’s Notebooks of Malte Laurids the translation by Sunandini Brigge set in Calcutta. Featuring a Banerjee. This first U.S. young man with an open channel to publication brings off a the dead who drinks and grieves to remarkable resurrection, one excess, it is a mosaic of manic and that erupts full-blooded, alive immersive episodes. It is a spinning with laughter, stink and rage.’ drunken stumble through a city that —WASHINGTON POST feels menacingly sensual.’ —Nate McNamara, LIT HUB ‘[A] sweeping view of the richness and the turmoil of Bengali culture, literature, and politics in the twentieth century.’ —THE NEW YORKER ‘Nimble and vivid, Bhattacharya’s slippery narrative slithers forward and sideways through time: an acute, idiosyncratic reading experience.’ —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY NABARUN BHATTACHARYA Fiction / 3 Herbert Translated by Sunandini Banerjee May 1992. In Russia, Boris Yeltsin is showing millions of communists the spectre of capitalism. Yugoslavia is disintegrating. United Germany is uncertain about its next move, and communism is collapsing everywhere. And in a corner of old Calcutta, Herbert Sarkar, sole proprietor of a company that delivers JUST PUBLISHED messages from the dead, decides to give up the ghost. Decides to give up his aunt and uncle, his friends and foes, his fondness for kites, his aching heart that broke for Buki, his top terrace from where he stared up at the sky, his Ulster overcoat with buttons like big black medals, his notebook full of poems, his Park Street every evening when the sun goes down, his memory of a Russian girl running across the great black earth as the soldiers lift their guns and get ready to fire, his fairy who beat her wings against his window and filled his room with blue light . NABARUN BHATTACHARYA Now in a new translation, Herbert, (1948–2014) was an award-winning the beloved cult favourite by Nabarun Bengali poet, short-story writer and Bhattacharya, and winner of the Sahitya novelist. He has published eight novels, seven short-story collections, three volumes Akademi Award, is a ‘scathingly satiric, wildly of poetry and some collections of prose. energetic, and yet deeply tender’ portrayal of Herbert, his debut novel, won several a doomed young man and a city struggling literary prizes including the prestigious to resist forces that, alas, prove to be entirely Sahitya Akademi Award in 1997. beyond their control. SUNANDINI BANERJEE is a Calcutta- based graphic artist and editor who has illustrated books by Thomas Bernhard, HB • special indian price ₹ 499 Yves Bonnefoy and Ivan Vladislavic, among others. ISBN 9780857426499 • 5 x 8” • 148 pages The India List SUMANTA BANERJEE History / Women’s Studies / 4 Dangerous Outcast The Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century Bengal Like other socioeconomic formations, prostitution too underwent a dramatic change in Bengal soon after the British colonial takeover in the nineteenth century. Dangerous Outcast traces how, from the peripheries of pre-colonial Bengali rural society, prostitutes came to dominate the centrestage in Calcutta, BACK IN PRINT BACK the capital of British India—thanks to the emergence of a new clientele brought forth by the colonial order. It examines the policies the British administration implemented to revamp the profession to suit its needs, as well as to screen its practitioners in a bid to protect its minions in the army from venereal diseases. It also analyses the class structure within the prostitute community of the time; its complex relationship with the Bengali bhadralok— prosperous, well-educated—society; and the voices of the prostitutes themselves, which we hear from their songs, letters and writings, SUMANTA BANERJEE is a historian, journalist and cultural theorist. He has been collected and reproduced from both oral a leading public intellectual for many decades tradition and printed sources. and has earlier been a fellow at the Indian Exhaustively documented, drawing upon Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla. His contemporary records, both social and popular, most recent publications include Memoirs of Roads: Calcutta from Colonial Urbanization to Dangerous Outcast is a major contribution to the Global Modernization. ongoing research on nineteenth-century Bengal in general and women’s studies in particular. PB • special indian price ₹699 ISBN 9780857426154 • 6 x 9” • 256 pages The India List SUMANTA BANERJEE Sociology / History / 5 Logic in a Popular Form Essays on Popular Religion in Bengal Taking its title from Karl Marx’s description of religion as the world’s ‘logic in a popular form’, this volume explores the hidden logic behind popular religions in nineteenth-century Bengal. Sumanta Banerjee examines cross-religious cults and the construction of Bengali myths and beliefs about godlings and spirits, approaching BACK IN PRINT BACK them as popular inventions that attempt to make sense of human existence in the face of an overwhelming and often hostile environment. These religious manifestations of popular logic—ranging from Kali to Radha–Krishna to Satyapir to Tantric practice—are fluid and constantly innovating. Banerjee argues that they represent an alternative stream running parallel to, and often challenging, the more strictly structured beliefs and practices of the Indian religious establishments, whether Hindu, Islamic or Christian. Logic in a Popular Form brings to light many significant aspects of the multifaceted phe- nomenon of popular religion in Bengal while tracing the impact of urbanization, colonialism and nationalism on it, and re-examines the relevance of the beliefs and rituals that continue to survive in Bengali society. PB • special indian price ₹699 ISBN 9780857426161 • 6 x 9” • 272 pages The India List SUMANTA BANERJEE Sociology / History / 6 The Parlour and the Streets Elite and Popular Culture in Nineteenth-Century Calcutta The Parlour and the Streets analyses the development of the various forms of folk culture of the urban poor in the new metropolis of nineteenth-century Calcutta, as a fallout of the process of urbanization in the wake of the establishment of the British colonial system in Bengal. Consisting primarily of traditional BACK IN PRINT BACK artisans and craftsmen who migrated from the neighbouring villages, the lower orders of Calcutta evolved a new urban folk culture from their own older rural inheritance. Citing numerous examples of contemporary street songs and popular performing arts, the book traces the beginnings of tension between these urban folk-cultural forms and the new culture of the Bengali elite which was increasingly seeking to model itself on the British.The author demonstrates how this new elite, shaped by colonial powers, not only disowned a common culture which it once SUMANTA BANERJEE is a historian, journalist and cultural theorist. He has been shared with the populace but also sought to a leading public intellectual for many decades muzzle it—a move which, at political and other and has earlier been a fellow at the Indian levels, was to have serious consequences that are Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla. His still all too apparent in contemporary Bengal. most recent publications include Memoirs of Roads: Calcutta from Colonial Urbanization to Global Modernization. PB • special indian price ₹699 ISBN 9780857426178 • 6 x 9” • 272 pages The India List Fiction / Art / 7 Is It the Same for You? Text by NEHA SINGH Illustrations by PRIYA SEBASTIAN ‘Is it the same for you?’ asks a young girl in Kashmir as she goes through the turbulence of adolescence in her conflict-ridden world. While larger issues of terrorism, violence and death engulf the hearts and minds of all those around her, she struggles to come to terms with her changing body and all that it entails.