About the Book: The Origins of Dislike
strategic thinking for a writer articulates itself as dislike and as
allegiance. In this wonderfully rich and diverse collection of essays, Amit
Chaudhuri explores the way in which writers understand and promote their own
work in antithesis to writers and movements that have gone before. Chaudhuris
criticism disproves and questions several assumptions—that a serious and
original artist cannot think critically in a way that matters; that criticism
cant be imaginative, and creative work contain radical argumentation; that a
writer reflecting on their own position and practice cannot be more than a
testimony of their work, but open up how we