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{{Short description|1999 debut novel by Pankaj Mishra}}
{{Infobox book
| name = The Romantics
| image = The Romantics (novel).jpg
| caption = First edition (UK)
| author = [[Pankaj Mishra]]
| cover_artist = Raghubir Singh
| country =
| language =
| genre =
| publisher = Picador
| pub_date =
| pages = 277
| isbn = 0-330-39277-8
| oclc= 59510102
}}
'''''The Romantics''''' (1999) is the [[debut novel]] of [[Pankaj Mishra]], the author of ''Butter Chicken in Ludhiana: Travels in Small Town India'' (1995), ''An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World'' (2004) and ''Temptations of the West: How to be Modern in India, Pakistan and Beyond'' (2006). ''The Romantics'' is an ironic tale of people longing for fulfillment in cultures other than their own. It was published in eleven
==Plot introduction==
Samar, the young narrator of ''The Romantics'', arrives at a boarding house in the holy city of [[Benaras]], an ancient city trying to cope with modern India. There he hopes to lose himself in books and solitude, but, far from offering him an undistracted existence, the city forces all his silent desires into the light. Although this novels depicts the interaction of two culture such as east and west. the protagonist is highly attracted towards the glamour of western that comes to novel as being in contact with Catherine.
==Literary significance and reception==
'Though slightly over-long and crowded with minor players, ''The Romantics'' is an intriguing combination of casual grace and emotional intensity, peppered with discreet social comment on caste, class, sectarian strife, the state of the nation. (...) Hearteningly different from the tricksiness and posturing of much recent Indian writing, this is a charming début, which makes a virtue of its studied simplicity'
'If much of cosmopolitan Indian writing has valorized the immigrant and the foreign land, then ''The Romantics'' is a celebration of the home and its forgotten world'
'...this extraordinary [[debut novel]], ''The Romantics'', a supernova in the wan firmament of recent fiction'
==References==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080212231907/http://www.outlookindia.com/author.asp?name=Pankaj+Mishra Magazine contains articles written by Pankaj Mishra]
* [http://www.nybooks.com/authors/196 Articles on New York Review of Books]
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* [http://www.loggernaut.org/interviews/pankajmishra "Pankaj Mishra, Intellectual and Spiritual Vagrant"]. An interview by Wendy Cheng at ''[[Loggernaut]]''.
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