[Reader-list] Aniket Jaaware's reading at Sarai - Neon Fish

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Reading @ Sarai: Neon Fish in Dark Water
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Readings from "Neon Fishin Dark Water"
by Aniket Jaaware
5:00 P.M., Monday 12 March 2007
Interface Zone, Sarai-CSDS

Aniket Jaaware will do an audio-visual reading from
his new book of stories and graphics (done by
himself), Neon Fish in Dark Water (Mapin,2007).


"This is the year 2050. This is the City. Strange
things happen here, along with familiar things.
There's a man who lives on the N-BAR (the New Bridge
Across the River). There's a feisty,unspeaking nurse.
There's a pair of lovers, one of them a painter, the
other a pharmacist. There's a forever irate
Inspector(Crime Branch), and a man who uses a cart to
sell a variable fare, a boy who rides his bicycle the
whole day, going round and round and round the City.
There are new, automated Micro/Ford cars coming in,
there are cleaning robots on the streets."

These brilliant, disturbing stories speak to us of our
own time as well as of a time to come, and they do so
in a wholly modern,contemporary  accent. Aniket
Jaaware's text is a composite of word and image,
narrative complemented by graphic art reminiscent of
Martin Escher's visual  puzzles, while the tales tease
us into thinking about urban lives,
singularities,obsessions, virtual realities, and the
nature of persons.

Jaaware's City is made up of eccentrics who are also,
in the context of a postmodern urbanity, regulars:
recognizably the denizens of the crowded but
alienating space in which we all live our lives. There
are dying lovers, the abused but self-possessed nurse,
the vendor and the bicycle boy, the butterfly
collector, the computer hacker, the police Inspector:
each fully in command of their own kinds of reality,
but ironically at odds with other kinds.

The tone of the narration, accessible, easy,
contemporary, places us within this brilliantly
imagined cityscape, with its blend of the familiar and
the disorienting. Jaaware's style combines sympathy,
humour and irony, making the act of reading itself an
act of affiliation within a new imaginative order.


About Aniket Jaaware

Aniket Jaaware teaches English at the University of
Pune. He is mainly interested in the literary genres
of science fiction, fantasy and horror, and cinema.
His earlier publications include a few poems and
essays and an academic book called Simplifications: An
Introduction to Structuralism and Post-Structuralism
(Orient Longman, 2000).

He also translates between English and Marathi. Neon
Fish comes after a long gap. More than twenty years
ago, he had published a novel in Marathi. His
subsequent projects include a fantasy trilogy, which
he
hopes to start working on soon.




		
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