Hoshang merchant autobiography of benjamin
Hoshang merchant autobiography of benjamin
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Book review: 'The Man Who Would Be Queen'
Book: The Man Who Would Be Queen
Author: Hoshang Merchant
Publisher: Penguin
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Price: Rs
Havovi Wadia finds that the poet Hoshang Merchant’s autobiography is replete with anecdotes, anguish and lyricism to make it a compelling read
A subtitle on the cover says that The Man Who Would Be Queen is ‘autobiographical fiction’.
You worry about the term for a while until you come across an interview where Hoshang Merchant clarifies that it is indeed “an autobiography.”
But this book is no easy confessional. Merchant foregrounds the role of memory, accepting it’s “tricks” and therefore also drawing attention to the inherent fiction in any reminiscence and recounting.
In the end therefore, the term autobiographical fiction justifies its appearance on the cover.
The first qua