All about H Hatterr in NYRB classics

NYRB classics section recommends All about H Hatterr of G V Desani with Anthony Burgess’ introduction:

… it is the language that makes the book… It is not pure English; it is like Shakespeare, Joyce, and Kipling, gloriously impure.

I found Saul Bellow’s recommendation rather curious:

I didn’t read many books while writing Augie. One I did read and love was All About H. Hatterr…. So, what about All About? I hate to be siding with T.S. Eliot… but what can you do?

Take a look!

Update: Literary Saloon writes about the NYRB classics edition of the book, and along the way, unearths some older and recent reviews/overviews of the book; the one by Amardeep that it mentions, is indeed a must-read.

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2 Responses to “All about H Hatterr in NYRB classics”

gaddeswarup Says:
October 26, 2007 at 3:36 am | Reply
Guru,
Wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._V._Desani
has some of the quotes.
Guru Says:
October 26, 2007 at 10:21 am | Reply
Dear Swarup,

Thanks for the pointer; reading All about H Hatterr is long overdue for me (and, I even have got it from the library — it is just sitting there). I probably will take it up for reading next.

Guru