An interlude in Giverny

The Interlude at the beginning of Part III functions like a prologue to the chapters that follow. It serves to describe the conditions under which the author conducted fieldwork am...

IN 1844, SØREN KIERKEGAARD published a deeply serious book called Philosophical Fragments. After the fourth of five chapters, we find an “interlude” fully a chapter’s length (1985,...

This interlude serves as a transition from the busy urban Chennai of the previous chapters to the rural quiet of Mātāpuram, a small village in inland Sivagangai District. It also m...