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Booker Ödülü Yeni Sahibine Kavuştu http://www.yorumla.net/kitaplik/579097-booker-prize-yeni-sahibine-kavustu.html Pek çok iddialı adayı geride bırakarak, ilk romanı The White Tiger (Beyaz Kaplan) ile Man Booker Prize ödulünü bu sene Hint asıllı yazar Aravind Adiga aldı. Kitabın kahramanı Balram Halwai, eğitimsiz olmasına rağmen hayattan vazgeçmeyen, Hindistan'da kendine bir gelecek inşa etmek için her türlü yolu deneyen kararlı biri. Zamanla, bir zavallıya dönüşmesi beklenen Halwai, polise ve politikacılara kahverengi zarflar içinde para verenlerden biri oluyor. Ancak Adiga'nın kitabında çizdiği haksızlıklarla dolu ve rüşvete bulanmış Hindistan portresi pek çok kişinin eleştiri oklarının hedefi haline geldi. Oxford Üniversitesi'nde eğitim görmüş, eski bir Times muhabiri olan Adiga'nın kitabında kendisine yabancı olan fakir Hindistan'ı ve orada yaşayan eğitimsiz birini hikâyesine ana kahraman olarak seçmesi çeşitli eleştirilere sebep oldu. Bu sorulara Aravind Adiga şöyle yanıt veriyor: "Hindistan'ın, tıpkı Çin gibi, büyük değişim sürecinden geçtiği, dünyayı Batı'dan devralmaya hazırlandığı şu günlerde, benim gibi yazarların bu toplumlardaki vahşi haksızlıklara ışık tutması çok önemli. 19. yüzyılda Balzac, Flaubert, Dickens gibi yazarların yaptığı da buydu. Bunun sonucunda İngiltere ve Fransa daha iyi toplumlar bugün. İşte benim yapmaya çalıştığım da bu. Sadece bir eleştiri değil, daha büyük çapta bir kendini sorgulama süreci." Görülmeyen ve duyulmayan pek çok başka hikâyenin de olduğu Hindistan'a Adiga'nın dışarıdan yönelttiği bakışın yüzeysel olduğunu düşünenler de var. Son kararı okurlara bırakıyoruz Man BookerThe White Tiger by Aravind Adigahttp://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/fiction/article3677773.eceAravind Adiga's extraordinary and brilliant first novel takes the form of a series of letters to Wen Jiabao, the Chinese premier, from Balram Halwai, the Bangalore businessman who is the self-styled “White Tiger” of the title. Bangalore is the Silicon Valley of the subcontinent, and on the eve of a state visit by Jiabao, our entrepreneur Halwai wishes to impart something of the new India to the Chinese premier - “out of respect for the love of liberty shown by the Chinese people, and also in the belief that the future of the world lies with the yellow man and the brown man now that our erstwhile master, the white-skinned man, has wasted himself through buggery, mobile phone usage and drug abuse”. http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/india/adigaa.htm#ours The complete review's Review: The White Tiger is presented as an epistolary novel, a series of letters written over the period of seven nights. It's just an excuse, of course, for the narrator, Balram Halwai, to tell his story -- a supposedly creative approach that, at least initially certainly gets the reader's attention. The person Balram is writing to is the premier of China, Wen Jiabao, due to visit the city Balram is living in -- Bangalore, India -- in a week's time. What, one wonders, could possess an Indian entrepreneur living in Bangalore to write at such length to the premier of China ? http://www.themanbookerprize.com/news/stories/1146The fourth debut novelist to win the coveted prize14 October 2008Aravind Adiga is tonight (Tuesday 14 October) named the winner of the £50,000 Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2008 for his novel The White Tiger, published by Atlantic. The thirty-three year old novelist was presented the prize at an awards ceremony at Guildhall, London. Adiga becomes the fourth debut novelist, and the second Indian debut novelist, to win the award in the forty year history of the prize. The three other debut novelists to have won the prize are Keri Hulme for her novel The Bone People in 1985, DBC Pierre in 2003 for his novel Vernon God Little and Arundhati Roy in 1997 for The God of Small Things. | Aravind Adiga Hindistan'ı Anlatıyor http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1829868,00.html Inflation in India has hit a 13-year high, but you wouldn't know that as you walk around the Infiniti Mall in Andheri, a Mumbai suburb. The young men and women — many of whom are aspiring models and film stars (the Bollywood studios are not far from here) — are crowding in with their cell phones and laptops, and the place looks as busy as ever. The White Tiger by Aravind Adigahttp://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/Aravind Adiga's extraordinary and brilliant first novel takes the form of a series of letters to Wen Jiabao, the Chinese premier, from Balram Halwai, the Bangalore businessman who is the self-styled “White Tiger” of the title. Bangalore is the Silicon Valley of the subcontinent, and on the eve of a state visit by Jiabao, our entrepreneur Halwai wishes to impart something of the new India to the Chinese premier - “out of respect for the love of liberty shown by the Chinese people, and also in the belief that the future of the world lies with the yellow man and the brown man now that our erstwhile master, the white-skinned man, has wasted himself through buggery, mobile phone usage and drug abuse”. Nakul Krishna Published 27 March 2008 The White Tiger One is surely tired of being informed that one had better resign oneself to the prospect of an Indian-run and/or Chinese-dominated world. Dreary old "should we fear red(dish) China" debates apart, there are quarters in which it is declared preferable that the Indians should take over. India - liberal, democratic, English-speaking, westward-looking, investor-friendly, no longer non-aligned India - is where the action's at. It is where the action of Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger is at, and Adiga's is what might be called a cautionary tale. Devamı için tıklayın | |
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