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Fly and the Fly-Bottle

Fly and the Fly-Bottle

Ved Mehta
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‘It is immensely well done. Mr. Mehta has a real gift of exposition and an unusual one. He can give a creditable and a credible account, not only of ideas but of the people who begot them, with illuminating reason why they did so. Each of the philosophers and historians with whom he talked appears as a self-consistent and self-explanatory personality, both intellectually and psychologically . . . Obliged, in spite of his English education, to see this from the outside, Mr. Mehta may have had peculiar and inherent advantages. He has written a very lively and also a very intelligent book which mixes lightness and seriousness in the best proportion. He is perhaps a bit jocose—indeed, in the self-depreciation and understatement of his humour, more British than the British.’
—Observer (London)

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Published: Dec/2013

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MRP : ₹399.00

Fly and the Fly-Bottle

Ved Mehta

‘It is immensely well done. Mr. Mehta has a real gift of exposition and an unusual one. He can give a creditable and a credible account, not only of ideas but of the people who begot them, with illuminating reason why they did so. Each of the philosophers and historians with whom he talked appears as a self-consistent and self-explanatory personality, both intellectually and psychologically . . . Obliged, in spite of his English education, to see this from the outside, Mr. Mehta may have had peculiar and inherent advantages. He has written a very lively and also a very intelligent book which mixes lightness and seriousness in the best proportion. He is perhaps a bit jocose—indeed, in the self-depreciation and understatement of his humour, more British than the British.’
—Observer (London)

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Ved Mehta

Ved Mehta is a journalist, novelist, and one of the most prolific memoirists of the twentieth century. Blind since the age of four, Mehta spent his early years in India, before first moving to America, where he studied at Harvard, and then to Britain, where he studied at Oxford. A MacArthur Prize fellow and member of the British Royal Society of Literature, he was a staff writer at the New Yorker magazine for over thirty years. His 27 books include the acclaimed multi-volume memoir Continents of Exile.

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