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The
Color Gallery
Edited
By: Dr.
Santosh Kumar Binding: Paperback (pp:
272) ISBN: 81-8253-002-4 Availability: In
Stock (Ships within 1 to 2 days) Publisher: Cyberwit.net, Allahabad, India Pub. Date: 2004 Condition: New Description:
Here
are tales, fantasies, horror and satire, and
character studies created with careful choice of
words, sentences, and paragraphs to produce a
specific effect on the reader. Some of the major
themes of these short stories are human
alienation, personal trauma, such as anxiety, love
and hate, man-woman relationship, delusion and
self-discovery, spiritual struggle, the individual
in conflict with popular social values. The plot
and structure, and the choice and control of
style, which we notice in the short stories
selected for The Color Gallery, will certainly
stimulate our imaginative, emotional, and
intellectual response. These unique and excellent
short stories very well blend 'the native
tradition with Continental sources', and revive
the almost lost art of short-story writing. The
intensity of The Color Gallery is beyond question,
due to genuine emotional depth, the freshness, and
direct presentation of situations.
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$15 
We find in the short stories included in The
Color Gallery an extraordinary quality of
characterization, dialogue and situation. Several
of these stories reveal the tense moments leading
to an apt climax. The violence appearing as
predominant theme in some short-story writers is
not surprising, because our planet is now almost
accustomed to the sinister storms of terror,
nuclear war, moral and sexual depravity in all
walks of life. In a few stories of The Color
Gallery, we find the authors demanding freedom
not of principles but of instincts, a freedom to
live in 'a lawless universe where the only
master is the inordinate energy of desire'
(Albert Camus, The Rebel). The Color
Gallery features short stories, which are
'charmingly unexpected, and unexpectedly
charming'. What is extraordinary is that these
authors are at the peak of their style-unpolished,
vigorous, terse and suggestive.
In several stories, we notice the use of satire, but it is a gentle criticism of contemporary life and manners, devoid of any contempt or malice against any one in particular. A highly sensitive mind lays these authors open to all the emotions of the heart, and they are quite successful in describing the involvements, feelings, and characters of contemporary life.
The short stories selected for The Color
Gallery present a many-sided picture of life,
not only rose-colored but also the villainy and
shallowness of contemporary life. It is especially
significant that these authors penetrate to the
very heart of the characters, and paint reality in
all its contrasts.
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