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These days, I am reading a collection of short stories from Somerset Maugham. I see that many of his stories have a guy who has somehow lost interest in general routine life/ambitious career oriented life and is after simple "peace of mind". (In one of the character's own words, he is after "truth, beauty and peace of mind".) I mean, something which according to him is independent of material possessions and in particular - independent of money. I guess that sort of thing fascinates Somerset Maugham.
From what I have observed in my limited reading (that's my disclaimer that I don't claim it is true :P), like Somerset Maugham's recurring theme of characters not being interested in entering race for anything material, Hermann Hesse's repeating theme is of struggle between following an austere, "cultured" life and succumbing to "lower" instincts; Kafka seems to be partial to some sort of physical/emotional suffering; Bhibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay seems to fancy a traveler with careless abandon for whom everything mundane is also emotionally touching while Satyajit Ray often seems to have a well educated, well-read Bengali bachelor in his stories.
I was wondering what character would I repeatedly write about, if I were to write short stories ?
I would repeatedly write about a software engineer in Bangalore who goes to work everyday and spends weekends getting bored at home. Yes, that's the sort of thing that fascinates me :P
From what I have observed in my limited reading (that's my disclaimer that I don't claim it is true :P), like Somerset Maugham's recurring theme of characters not being interested in entering race for anything material, Hermann Hesse's repeating theme is of struggle between following an austere, "cultured" life and succumbing to "lower" instincts; Kafka seems to be partial to some sort of physical/emotional suffering; Bhibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay seems to fancy a traveler with careless abandon for whom everything mundane is also emotionally touching while Satyajit Ray often seems to have a well educated, well-read Bengali bachelor in his stories.
I was wondering what character would I repeatedly write about, if I were to write short stories ?
I would repeatedly write about a software engineer in Bangalore who goes to work everyday and spends weekends getting bored at home. Yes, that's the sort of thing that fascinates me :P