In Custody
Marx, Paul
Approaching the end IN CUSTODY Anita Desai Bessie/Harper & Row, $16.95, 204 pp. Paul Marx RICHLY embellished with vocabulary and locutions from Persian and Arabic, Urdu has been the language...
...The three days turn into weeks...
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...Still, if Urdu speakers and Indians should be vexed with what Desai has done here, that reaction would make a lot of sense...
...Quigley mentions in passing our anthology, Crisis and Opportunity: U.S...
...Paul Marx RICHLY embellished with vocabulary and locutions from Persian and Arabic, Urdu has been the language of Indian Moslems...
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...Deven, a Hindu, must penetrate that Moslem chaos...
...No place for it to live in the style to which it is accustomed, no emperors and nawabs to act as its patrons...
...Is it not you who has made me play the role of the loose woman in gaudy garments by refusing to take my work seriously and giving me just that much regard that you would extend to even a failure in the arts as long as the artist was male...
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...He discourses about food and drink...
...Benedict, treats recent positions of Pope John Paul II on international politics, international solidarity, religious orders...
...For every character in this novel is satirized...
...Besides, I intend to accept General Winters's job offer...
...Timid, indecisive, threatened by every raised voice, he nevertheless has made it to the post of lecturer in a small college...
...With partition in 1947, Urdu became the official language of Moslem Pakistan...
...THOMAS E. QUIGLEY 21 June 1985: 383...
...The brazen young wife wants Deven to sponsor her poetry...
...nothing is as bad as it seems, it's worse...
...policy in Central America — it is important that leadership groups be given an opportunity to hear the president's case...
...But, as sometimes is the case, the little man has a passion: he is a true lover of Urdu poetry...
...Even the Great Communicator needs the help of his White House staff, and Faith Whittlesey has performed an important public service...
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...Murad is devious, entirely self-serving, a friend only by association...
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...Poor Deven...
...Whatever ironic fantasy one might try to evoke about the waning years of a great writer, it is unlikely that the degradation Desai produces for Deven's hero Nur could be surpassed...
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...And in Deven, Desai has given us — what word could better describe him...
...Rather than look at them, he feels forced to' 'look away quickly and focus his eyes upon the door at the far end of the room...
...And so when we are shocked to see the last great Urdu poet living under the tyranny of the prostitute, we are led further...
...As the influence of the Moslem remnant in India declines, Urdu has reached the endangered point there...
...Policy in Central America and the Caribbean, I would like to make clear that the book does not engage in the selective quotation he decries...
...Nur, fearful for his soul, wants Deven to underwrite a trip to Mecca...
...funds...
...Yet what might be expected of a teacher who cannot even make eye contact with the students sitting before him...
...Allow four weeks...
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...660, three times...
...Deven had allotted three days for his interviews with Nur...
...Commonweal: 382 Correspondence (Continued from page 354) "substantial refund" amounted to $84,000, or 12 percent of the overcharge, which weighed in at an impressive 618 percent of what "an ordinarily prudent person in the conduct of competitive business" might pay for the kit...
...Further, in the climate of opinion created by mainline church and prestige-media spokesmen — which tends to oppose U.S...
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...To the Editors: Thomas E. Quigley's article ["When Research Masquerades," April 5] makes some good points, but perhaps misses the main point...
...Over several centuries a considerable Urdu literature has developed...
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...Itis Deven's assignment from old classmate Murad to bus into Delhi from his college town and find the great Classified RATES: 70# a word, one time...
...It is part of Desai's technique to give all developments still another twist...
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...I am tempted to quote Shaw back at General Winters ("I never expect a soldier to think," and "When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons...
...Weinberger owes us "a more complete picture of military spending" than experience has taught us to expect from the Pentagon...
...That was what made him a boring teacher who could not command the attention, let alone win the regard of his unruly class...
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...But back in Delhi, Nur and his young wife look upon him as their benefactor...
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...The American reader finds himself in the uncomfortable situation of laughing at them all and feeling superior...
...But given the opportunity to resurrect Nur and thereby advance his career, he ends up worse off than he began...
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...He is close to jumping into a canal...
...Quigley is willing to allow...
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...Anita Desai's novel is about an attempt to keep alive the tradition of Urdu literature through a special issue of a Delhi literary magazine...
...In a letter, which provides perhaps the most comical passage in a very comical book, Imtiaz tells Deven he must overcome his hostility towards women, which after all is just a way of avoiding having to admit that his supposed superiority is questionable...
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...He had for years been practicing this trick of ignoring his class and speaking to himself, or someone outside, invisible...
...More of the poetry, though, is Keats's and Shelley's...
...But almost all Nur's waking time is spent in the presence of hangers-on from the bazaar, and he plays to his low-life audience...
...Surely, trying to save Urdu is not an unworthy cause, but Deven and Murad and Nur himself are made to be unworthy of the cause...
...Yet that is the way we react to Thurber and our own satirists, isn't it...
...Are you not guilty of assuming that because you are a male, you have a right to brains, talent, reputation, and achievement, while I because I was born female, am condemned to find what satisfaction I can in being maligned, mocked, ignored, and neglected...
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...The Office of Public Liaison is not and indeed should not be a "balanced" academic effort...
...Unfortunately, the aged Nur is immured in a foul, ramshackle Moslem quarter...
...However, the foolishness with which Desai afflicts her characters makes it impossible for the special issue to be published as planned...
...Occasionally he is moved to recite a few lines of his poetry...
...The fact that Desai has made her scholar, Deven, and her editor, Murad, such futile, laughable creatures suggests that as far as she is concerned Urdu literature is just about dead...
...When it is all brought to an end, and Deven finally has hours and hours of bluster and impertinence edited down to one tape, it is so noisy and such a hodgepodge as to be useless...
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...The undertaking costs Deven all his money — and much more...
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...He is amenable to talking and reciting, but the chaos amidst which he lives constantly intrudes...
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...But given the Soviet and Cuban military presence and subversive activities in the Caribbean Basin, they will be much more likely to recognize that the president has a more persuasive position than Mr...
...I find neither proposition sustainable, but perhaps I'm still missing main points...
...a wimp...
...630, six times...
...Our protagonist is a little man, an anti-hero, a wimp...
...Nur — interview him about the Urdu scene and get from him whatever new work he might have...
...Urdu — "language of the court in days of royalty — now languishes in the back lanes and gutters of the city...
...we hear the prostitute assert that as an Urdu poet herself, she is greater than Nur...
...as soon as we settle on the money and he tells me which door to report to, I'll pack up my current tool and supply catalogs, and come on down...
...Founded to ransom slaves, our small community of men have grounded our lives and our work of liberation in fraternity, prayer, and the Bible for over 800 years...
...People who are exposed to a broad spectrum of fact and opinion about Central America may not see things exactly the way the White House does...
...Catholic Conference's testimony before Congress...
...Earlier in life, Nur had indeed been a powerful poet, but as the end approaches he is made to be a glutton, to crawl in his own vomit, to live in fear of the young prostitute whom he has taken as a wife, who berates him for being "a tortoise that sticks its head in the mud at the bottom of the pond...
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...21 June 1985: 381 Like Isaac Bashevis Singer with Yiddish, the fictional poet Nur continues to create in a language that is being done in by history...
...It should clarify and advocate the president's position — always, pf course, strictly adhering to the facts and the rules of evidence...
...In this unfair world that you have created what else could I have been but what I am...
Vol. 112 • June 1985 • No. 12
