By focusing on Tabish Khair’s latest literary endeavour, a short novel entitled 'Night of Happiness' (2018), this paper sets out to investigate what, in the writer’s opinion, is the root of most problems affecting human relationships and society as a whole: our unwillingness to embrace the unexpected complexity of reality, reassuringly misperceived through the filter of one’s misconceptions.
Marino, E. (2019). An Unwilling Suspension of Misbeliefs: Acknowledging the Complexity of Reality in 'Night of Happiness' by Tabish Khair. ACTA NEOPHILOLOGICA, 52(1-2), 59-68 [10.4312/an.52.1-2.59-68].
An Unwilling Suspension of Misbeliefs: Acknowledging the Complexity of Reality in 'Night of Happiness' by Tabish Khair
Marino, Elisabetta
2019-12-01
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By focusing on Tabish Khair’s latest literary endeavour, a short novel entitled 'Night of Happiness' (2018), this paper sets out to investigate what, in the writer’s opinion, is the root of most problems affecting human relationships and society as a whole: our unwillingness to embrace the unexpected complexity of reality, reassuringly misperceived through the filter of one’s misconceptions.File in questo prodotto:
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