Chilekoṭhār unmādinī

Though this mesmerising book primarily deals with French literature and culture (articles on La Rochefoucauld, Flaubert, Mallarmé, symbolism, Rodin, Michaux, Romain Rolland, Saint-John Perse, Jean Anouilh, Jean-Paul Sartre, there are extraordinary essays on T S Eliot's erotic poetry, Mrs Eliot's personal diaries with excerpts from her own works and a history of suicide.