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Originally published 1949 Genre Fiction | 3.9/5 Goodreads | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Fiction books Untouchable, Coolie, English - August, Red Earth and Pouring, The Great Indian Novel | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
All About H. Hatterr (1948) is a novel by G. V. Desani chronicling the adventures of an Anglo-Malay man in search of wisdom and enlightenment. "As far back as in 1951," Desani later wrote, "I said H. Hatterr was a portrait of a man, the common vulgar species, found everywhere, both in the East and in the West".
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Literary significance and reception
Salman Rushdie comments:
The mad English of All About H. Hatterr is a thoroughly self-conscious and finely controlled performance, as Anthony Burgess points out in its preface:
Comments Amardeep Singh, Assistant Professor of English at Lehigh University on the novel's mad English:
All About H. Hatterr and Modernist literature
Says Amardeep Singh:
References
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