{"id":4881,"date":"2008-04-16T06:44:01","date_gmt":"2008-04-16T01:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=2617"},"modified":"2008-04-16T06:44:01","modified_gmt":"2008-04-16T01:14:01","slug":"alzheimers-tales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/alzheimers-tales\/","title":{"rendered":"Alzheimer\u2019s Tales"},"content":{"rendered":"
The line of the day comes from Jai Arjun Singh, who writes<\/a> about U, Me aur Hum<\/i>:<\/p>\n This is two bad movies for the price of one.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Total VFM for Bollywood fans, in other words. Read his full review<\/a>; I don’t think I’ll be watching the film now.<\/p>\n The greatest narrative<\/b> involving Alzheimer’s, by the way, surely has to be Alice Munro’s masterpiece, “The Bear Came Over the Mountain.”<\/a> I read it for the first time recently in an anthology of love stories<\/a> put together by Jeffrey Eugenides, and agree with his description of it as “nearly impossibly good.” I’ve never read a short story that has moved me so much—or been so instructive about the art of writing. It’s a pitch-perfect story, right from the way she introduces the characters in that brief first section, to the dialogue-writing and understated story-telling, to the way she wraps it up. (The New Yorker<\/i> version of the story is subtly, very subtly, different from the one in the book, and even that was instructive for me—one of the things that blew me away when I read it in the book, the absence of quotation marks in just one<\/i> very apt piece of direct quotation in the story, isn’t there in the magazine version.)<\/p>\n It’s more than 11,000 words, so I suggest you go to it when you have the time, and read it slowly<\/a>.<\/p>\n PS<\/b>: And oh, Munro’s story was made into a film<\/a>. I don’t think that would be up Devgan’s street, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The line of the day comes from Jai Arjun Singh, who writes<\/a> about U, Me aur Hum<\/i>:<\/p>\n This is two bad movies for the price of one.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Total VFM for Bollywood fans, in other words. Read his full review<\/a>; I don’t think I’ll be watching the film now.<\/p>\n The greatest narrative<\/b> involving Alzheimer’s, by the way, surely has to be Alice Munro’s masterpiece, “The Bear Came Over the Mountain.”<\/a> I read it for the first time recently in an anthology of love stories<\/a> put together by Jeffrey Eugenides, and agree with his description of it as “nearly impossibly good.” I’ve never read a short story that has moved me so much—or been so instructive about the art of writing. It’s a pitch-perfect story, right from the way she introduces the characters in that brief first section, to the dialogue-writing and understated story-telling, to the way she wraps it up. (The New Yorker<\/i> version of the story is subtly, very subtly, different from the one in the book, and even that was instructive for me—one of the things that blew me away when I read it in the book, the absence of quotation marks in just one<\/i> very apt piece of direct quotation in the story, isn’t there in the magazine version.)<\/p>\n It’s more than 11,000 words, so I suggest you go to it when you have the time, and read it slowly<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n
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