Arundathi Roy

Topic started by sandihya on Mon Nov 22 08:35:19 .


Indian writers in English generally write for international readers. Arundathi wanted to show through The God of all Small Things that there is untouchability even in Christianity. Untouchability is what by the way missionaries profess to remove through conversions.

The title is The God of Small things, not the god of all small things

i had to read this perverted book for english at UT Austin for my World Lit class. The narrative began as many others mid life but unfolding into orangedrink lemon drink man- gross and Rahel and Estha making love...Totally fit in with our Professor's choice of "porn" novels and how he intentionally picked out the sex in each on tests. ok that is my comment. Roy you--you- oldnew running around ex crazed pedophilliac one

Liked it, like all Malayalees did.
Some realities of Mallus born and brought up
outside Kerala, are shown.
Is it true that two-egged twins (twins one male and one female) have incestual
feelings towards each other?

Hi all,

I too read this book, a while back so cant remember too many things about it. I am not from Kerala but always been fascinated by this place which resembles alot like Srilanka.....The book was so vivid and discriptive that I felt like I was right there.

TO: Arundhati Liker, Yeah, they do have incesutual realations towards the end of the story, which like others, I too did'nt get it.

Does anyone know anyother books written by Roy??

she said she'll write no more books but has written a mini book on the proposed Dam in narmada and a huge article on india and pKISTAN HAVING nucluer bombs.

I enjoyed reading Roy's book also - I mean this was my first time being exposed to a Malyalee Woman writer. And the story seems to bring out a lot of deep feelings in her - i mean i know that she was also mixed with a Bengali father and a Malayalee mother and that she did not fit into society. I also see a lot of political passions of hers instilled deeply in the book - I mean you can tell she was communist. We are always taught that democracy is the one true way in the schools here in the US but this book was like a mind opener to why Kerala has these communist affiliations but this book has not come up as a reading requirement in our lit classes - maybe as anon said due to some of the perverted qualities (?) Does anyone feel that Roy used the gross details a little too much or was it needed for such a story?

From royfan
if ever there was a book needing to be be written, it was this, it was this. roy wears and uses english like it was water flowing in the river at ayemenem. i only wonder how such a fragile looking one with such a little excited girl voice could write such muscular prose (or is it poetry)always surprises me. i hope there never will be a Roy-shaped hole in this universe which i am honored to share with her.

hi

Roy's writings don't need any advocate for their defence. But perhaps this much has to be said, if only in defense of professors and teachers of English who choose novels such as Roy,s as course material.
Good literature doesn't hide behind the skirts of civil society. Nor was it ever the simpering handmaiden of squeamish teenyboppers. Good literature has to go boldly where no man or
woman has gone. With brutal honesty and
endearing frankness. It is thus that good
literature helps to exorcise society of its
lingering guilt and angst.
Good literature gets done because it has to be.
The world needs it.

Royfan