Read / Read

by Pia Bakshi

Overview

A writer writes.
A reader reads.
What about the character developed - the fulcrum of the story?
Do they get written or do they get read?

Read/Read explores the relationship between a writer and the character she develops in pursuit of completing a book.
The writer is Elixir Banks, a 28 year old from Philadelphia, who has recently moved to Mumbai, India to finish writing a novel. What follows, is a creative process and a personal discourse that changes her and the work she produces, substantially.
The character is Smith, lost on the pages of Elixir’s diary and her screen. All through the mundane occurrences of her life, he is a constant. He has suffered birth, death, change, desire, hate and transformation all in the hands of Elixir as she creates and recreates him.
The novella uses a relatable objective correlative, that of a novel, to extrapolate on the politics of identity and ownership of that identity- what one is reading and what has been read.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940155359470
Publisher:	One Point Six Technologies Pvt Ltd
Publication date:	08/01/2018
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	934 KB

About the Author

A Charles Wallace India Trust Fellow at SUISS, University of Edinburgh and a Young India Fellow with a Masters in Liberal Studies from Ashoka University, Pia Bakshi ia a scriptwriter and a language and elocution coach.She runs PhilARThropy, a volunteer driven social organisation, committed to creating an inclusive and accessible space for art through her work in under-resourced communities.An artist herself, she practices Zentangle and Abstract Expressionism. She is a singer-songwriter who also plays the guitar and the ukulele. Some of her songs also find mention in the book. She can be reached at [e-mail].