Böcker av Swadesh Deepak

DescriptionWhen Swadesh Deepak-celebrated Hindi playwright and short-story writer-arrives at PGI, Chandigarh, after having tried to set himself on fire, the doctorsdon''t know if he belongs in the burns unit or in the psychiatric ward. He''s living a''curse''. A dangerous seductress-his Mayavini-is taking revenge for his insultingrebuff at her wish to visit with him the famous lovers'' palace in Mandu. She comesto him at night, sometimes with three white leopards, and she leaves the smell ofher body in his nostrils. When he tries to kill himself, she tells him he will not die.He is firmly in her clutches, but he will tolerate anything for her, from humiliationat the hands of acquaintances to carnivorous worms under his skin.This fractured, shattering narrative-among the most unusual books everpublished in India-records Deepak''s descent into madness and his brief,uncertain recovery. Shortly after it was published, he left home for a walkone morning and never returned. As the translator, Jerry Pinto, writes in hisintroduction: ''[Deepak''s] words carry all the scars of who he was and what hisillness had made of him... His voice echoes from the bottom of a well.''