Wild Animals Prohibited

By Subimal Misra

•FOR FANS OF: William Burroughs, Kathy Acker, Tarkovsky, Godard, Beckett, and any other authors who play with form as a way of subverting the norms of literature.

•BENGALI'S BEST AUTHOR: who's work has recently been reprinted in HarperCollins India's special collection of the ten best works in translation they've published over their entire history.

•SECOND MISRA BOOK FROM OPEN LETTER: This is the follow-up to This Could Have Become Ramayan Chamar's Tale (July 2020).

•A LARGER-THAN-LIFE PERSONALITY: Misra famously tore up his degrees and took to teaching at a school by the red light district to help educate the sex workers' children. He refuses to attend literary festivals and doesn't put an official price on his books, instead issuing them with a "suggested exchange value."

•ONE OF THE MOST UNIQUE VOICES FROM INDIA: Very little Indian literature has been published in translation, and nothing that's as bold, controversial, and anarchic as Misra.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Open Letter
• Release date: Sep 7, 2021
• ISBN: 9781948830577

Subimal Misra

Subimal Misra was born in 1943 and his writing career spanned over four decades. The cliched label, ‘anti-establishment', is often applied the moment his name is mentioned. But since ‘anti-establishment' now seeks to become the establishment, he opposed that too. He was entirely a little-magazine writer, not having written a single letter outside little magazines in his career. Some say Misra brought a different genre into Bengali literature, which made his writing distinctive. From a stance of all-round opposition he said, ‘I try to think differently and yet people make an uproar about me – the two can't coexist, that can't be. If I attain instant recognition and popularity, then I would think that what I'm doing is not new.' When the way of saying becomes the subject was one of his favourite expressions, with a debt to Jean-Luc Godard, of course. He also said that he didn't believe in any prevalent one-dimensional label: Whatever is accepted as correct is what has to be examined much more. Misra passed away in February 2023.   

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