Chaya Bhuvaneswar
Auteur van White Dancing Elephants
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Chaya Bhuvaneswar is a physician and writer whose work has appeared in Narrative Magazine, Tin House, Michigan Quarterly Review. The Millions, and elsewhere. She has received a MacDowell Colony Fellowship and a Henfield award for her writing.
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In one of the interviews she did on her book tour, the author said the following:
“And that’s what I believe is essential to fiction. That we have a way to make someone’s subjectivity immediate, transparent, real. It no longer becomes theoretical or a matter for ‘argument’ that someone feels pain. We feel what the other person, the character, feels.”
I love that quote, especially I consider that Dr. Bhuvaneswar, a psychiatrist, has been spending much of her time for decades trying to understand her patients’ subjectivity and their pain.
Full disclosure: I have known the author for going on 30 years. We shared a literature class on the canon both semesters freshman year. Her insights blew me away often in that class. This may be her first published book after decades as a doctor and psychiatrist, but I can attest that she has been passionate about fiction and writing, and about many of the themes in White Dancing Elephants, for decades, and the wonderful quality of this work shows it.
I am looking forward to listening to White Dancing Elephants again now and to reading anything else she may write in the future.… (meer)