Pastiche of Angst

by Nilotpal Roy

Scandalously frank, wittily erudite, mercurially sui generis, effervescently inventive, and versatilely fecund, ‘Pastiche of Angst’ offers the readers a life-changing experience. Nilotpal Roy’s astonishing masterpiece, ‘Pastiche of Angst’, tells of the absurd and fairy-tale like events which occur inside the mind of the protagonist, in Kolkata on 28th April 2004, when he gets estranged from his sensual fiancee.

This richly allusive, allegorical and symbolic novel, revolutionary in its ‘Post Post-Modernistic’ experimentalism, is now being hailed as a work of genius, by many contemporary doyens and stalwarts of literature worldwide.

288 pages, Hardcover

Published March 1, 2016

About the author

Nilotpal Roy (born 19th June 1978) is an Indian writer, thinker, literary critic, and commentator on culture. He is a bi-lingual novelist, essayist, poet, playwright, and short story writer. He writes with equal flair in two languages --- in English, and in his vernacular Bengali. So far, he is best known for his bold, maverick, and unforeseen styles of writing, as well as for his unconventional ways of thinking. As the immense magnitude of his erudite brain as well as his ganglionic pen ranges from ‘samizdat’ via ‘tamizdat’ to ‘magnitizdat’, since ‘blue blouse’ through ‘aleatoricism’ unto ‘degree zero’; he offers with effortless ease, a sojourn to cerebral literature.

He claims himself to be a ‘counter-intellectual’, because he feels that it is worse to be a ‘refined mediocre’ than being a ‘crude mediocre’, and prefers to be a ‘counter-intellectual’ to a ‘pseudo-intellectual’. He never calls himself an ‘author’ as he rather prefers the term ‘penman’ which is his own coinage. According to this exceptionally experimental penman, the true yardsticks of an exceptional thinker’s and/or writer’s extraordinaire should be --- Magha’s ‘versatility of inventiveness’, Joyce’s ‘fecundity of thought’, Borges’ ‘fastidiousness of analyticity’, and Kamal Kumar’s ‘infinitude of erudition’ --- all these assembled together.

He was born and brought up in north Calcutta, West Bengal, India, and presently lives in Dum Dum with his wife.

Main interests : Indian mythology, Sanskrit literature, Greek mythology, Roman mythology, Absurdism, Postmodernist experimental prose and poetry, Modernist experimental prose and poetry, Avant-garde theatre, Literary theory, Literary criticism, European philosophy, Psychoanalytic literary criticism, Psychological realism in literature, Experimental prose in Bengali literature, Bengali little magazine movement, History of primitive Kolkata, Bengali folklores (songs, riddles, proverbs & tales), Bengali stage theatre, Experimental film.

Reviews

[Himel Nag · Rating 5 out of 5]

I don't know what to say! I mean as a teacher he was a different kind and as a writer, he is also different I can't relate between those two people one who writes and the one who used to scold me in front of the whole class. Just because I used to bunk classes a lot and used to hate school. Sir if you are seeing this I am that student of yours Himel Nag that boy of your class (10th Standard) who just went to school one day in the whole year. Ok, now enough chitchat lets get back to the book part I know I am just nobody to critic or write reviews about people much more talented than me but yeah this book is for a special genre of people who might understand the actual meaning of it. And if you are getting it then welcome buddy we are different from others. Schizophrenia its not just a term but to a larger extent, it's an emotion.
OK now leaving this review enough of being a fanboy to Mr. Nilotpal Roy. Sir keep on writing we are here to read.