'Annapurna' is a sort of novel. It's a novel, but a true novel.
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There are other Annapurnas in the lives of men.
People have quite a simple idea about 'Anna Karenina.' They feel that the novel is entirely about a young married woman who falls in love with a cavalry officer and leaves her husband after much agony, and pays the price for that.
When I was growing up, 'Anna Karenina' was one of my favourite books.
I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character.
'Anna Karenina' is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. It's gossip, rubbish - on the other hand, it's the deepest story there could be about social transgression, about love, betrayal, duty, children.
I've been wanting to write a book about what goes into creating a novel, and the story behind 'A Passage to India' is especially interesting.
The truly great books are always novels: 'Anna Karenina,' 'The Brothers Karamazov,' 'The Magic Mountain.' Just as with 'Shahnameh,' I browse these books from time to time to remember how a great book works on us or to teach my students at Columbia University.
That seems to be the definition of 'novel' for me: a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief.
Apparently, the city of Delhi is a 'character' in my novels. I'd argue that it's a ... city... in my novels.
There are very few films that work like a novel.
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