作品情報

牛をめぐる営みが、共同体の秩序と滑稽さをあぶり出す。

物語の中心にあるのは牛そのものではなく、それをめぐって生じる制度や欲望の歪み。ユーモアを保ちながら、権力と共同体の関係を浮かび上がらせる。

書籍情報

出版社

India Viking

発売日

2019-08-26

ページ数

204ページ

言語

英語

サイズ

21.3 x 1.8 x 17.2 cm

ISBN-13

9780670092833

ISBN-10

0670092835

価格

2625 JPY

カテゴリ

洋書/Literature & Fiction/British/Humor & Satire

A brave and hilarious debut set in colonial India, Cow and Company begins with the British Chewing Gum Company setting up shop in Bombay with the mission of introducing chewing gum in the colonies. They declare paan, which is in all mouths at all times, as their enemy. A cow is chosen as the mascot. It is up on all the posters. Religious sentiments are hurt. What begins as a search for a cow ends up in a catastrophe. With laugh-out-loud moments, ingenious use of language, and a spellbinding interplay of fantasy and myth, Cow and Company uses satire to take stock of the state of the nation, religion and capital, then and now.

Parashar Kulkarni is a writer and an academic. He was raised in Mumbai. He teaches at the intersection of religion and politics at Yale-NUS College where he experiments with creative forms such as fiction and performance in his research and pedagogy. He has been a yoga practitioner for some time now and is interested in film-making and theatre. He has received several awards including the British Academy Brian Barry Prize and the Commonwealth Short Story Prize.

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