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Eros And Literature: Nissim Ezekiel in Conversation with Prabhat Kumar Pandeya
Author(s): Nissim Ezekiel and Prabhat Kumar Pandeya
Source: Indian Literature, Vol. 39, No. 3 (173) (May - June 1996), pp. 156-159
Published by: Sahitya Akademi
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INTERVIEW
Eros AndLiterature
Nissim zekiel
zehiel
Prabhat
PK
: What
NE
erotic
the
is
ofcourse
related
sexual/sensual.
intercourse,
so.
by the erotic?
Is it different
sexual/sensual?
: The
on
uuith
Kumar Pandeya
do you mean
from
in Conversation
The
But
to
it is not
and
dependent
erotic-sensual
not
may
to sexual
limited
even
or largely
insist
on
the
forms
of
expression.
PK
NE
can
at
be
love
without
poetry
eroticism.
eroticism?
Romanticism
often
leaves
it
out
of
PK
NE
: The
PK
: Which
NE
: I
connotation?
answer
except
poems
sets
this
out
to
compile
an
from
NE
the
of
anthology
but
question,
every
period
erotic
poems,
to
pre-Chaucerian
the
present
time.
values
projected
in
the
relevant
poems.
To
To
to arrive
the physical
is not necessarily
go beyond
at the sacred. The presence of the sacred suggests
immediately
of life and of love. Without that, eroticism,
a whole philosophy
even
PK
NE
PK
NE
PK
NE
when
not
profane,
cannot
be
characterised
as sacred.
That
PK
NE
language,
of many
EZEKIEL
157
they are
cultures
PK
NE
PK
: Please
ness.
NE
PK
NE
PK
NE
in individual
No generalisation
poems.
can do justice
it.
PK
NE
: What is regarded
as "abnormal"
by some people may be "nor
of others. If they express it in poetry,
mal" in the experience
both the quality of the relevant poem and the nature of the
need to be assessed.
Ethical and
real or alleged "abnormality"
of "lust murder," but it
humanist values can hardly approve
murder.
able
PK
stand
about
its erotic
abnormality
it fairly as a poem.
from judging
: Please speak freely on the subject,
158
INDIAN
LITERATURE
prevents
: 173
the reader
or thought
that
comes
to
your
mind.
All I can
say here
necessary
relationship.
on
its literature
poem.
value,
about
is that it is a
"Eros and Literature"
focus of serious reader has to be
The
whatever
the
role
NISSIM
of
Eros
in
a particular
EZEKIEL
159