Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Etudes by Aseem Kaul

I've been reading Etudes, a collection of very short fiction, written by Aseem Kaul. The works in this collection have earlier appeared on his blog. Aseem Kaul is a talented writer is very good with words and this is especially evident in his poems, which I think have an astounding quality about them. But as for the short fictional pieces in Etudes themselves, I didn't really enjoy them as much. Although to be frank I haven't read all the works in the book yet, and there might be some exceptionally good pieces in there that I haven't yet read. But the works I read so far don't have the quality that you see in his poems and dialog pieces.

2 Comments:

At 1:29 AM, Blogger borderline said...

hey there, i have to thank you for introducing me to aseem kaul and amruta patil through your blog.

in fact i had picked up kari for my ex-roomie and had wanted to read it then but it just got left out somehow. i picked it up and read it and want to read it again. she's outstanding.

 
At 10:03 PM, Blogger satchit said...

Glad to know. Aseem Kaul and Amruta Patil are both very good artists. Curious to know how I introduced you to Amruta Patil. :-) I haven't written about her or Kari on this blog. I have read Kari, about which although I liked the graphics, the story itself didn't interest me much. I felt it wasn't very cohesive - it felt very much like a work that was made over a long period. But Kari certainly deserves the good reviews it is getting because we need more such artists who create works because they believe in it, and themselves. I'm looking forward to Parva though.

 

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