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To Die in Benares
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To Die in Benares

By: K. Madavane,Blake Smith

Fiction Classics & Literature
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The book has been shortlisted for the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2019
In seven grim, macabre and sometimes darkly comic tales, Madavane traces France’s forgotten colonial presence, playfully reinterprets Hindu myths and recounts the many ways to die in postcolonial India. Recalling the pitiless world of Maupassant and animated by ghosts, gods and holy men, these haunting stories offer a fresh perspective on India’s past and present, its many ironies and idiosyncrasies.
Mourir à B...narès was first published in French in 2004 and received critical acclaim for its depiction of complex postcolonial identities. Now available in English for the first time, To Die in Benares brings to the fore characters and subjects oft ignored or disregarded by mainstream English literature.
Born in Pondicherry, K. Madavane went to school at the Lycée Français de Pondichéry. He received his PhD from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, where he explored the theme of death in the Theatre of the Absurd. He taught in JNU for years before retiring in 2011. Madavane’s plays include The Mahabharata of Women, The Veritree or the Falsity of the Gods, A Monologue for a Woman on Stage, and 1947: The Man from Lahore, which was shortlisted for The Hindu Playwright Award in 2017. To Die in Benares was first published in French as Mourir à Bénarès in 2004 and is one of his most acclaimed works. Madavane currently lives in Delhi with his wife.

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