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17 juillet 2021
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Mélanie Heydari-Malayeri, « “Almost the same, but not quite”: Masks and Mimicry in Vikram Seth’s An Equal Music », Commonwealth Essays and Studies, ID : 10.4000/ces.5223
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A variation on Great Expectations, An Equal Music (1999) is a tribute to Western classical music. Vikram Seth’s engagement with the grand literary and musical traditions of European culture makes his affiliations and cultural moorings impossible to pinpoint, all the more so since the prose of this chiseled, lyrical narrative is flawlessly clear and transparent. This paper will argue that the apparent cultural homogeneity of An Equal Music masks the violence that fissures the text.