Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Name: In Search of Love and Beauty
ISBN: 9781619028791

Novelist

1927-05-07

Books by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

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She explains that often the people who mean the most to us have to be left behind because they cannot follow us along our destined path.
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She explains that often the people who mean the most to us have to be left behind because they cannot follow us along our destined path.
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I only really woke up in India. It was my first experience of plenty, strangely enough, because everything in England was rationed. I loved sweets, but you couldn't get them; then there was this marvelous mitthai - I went crazy.
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First, I was so dazzled and besotted by India. People said the poverty was biblical, and I'm afraid that was my attitude, too. It's terribly easy to get used to someone else's poverty if you're living a middle-class life in it. But after a while, I saw it wasn't possible to accept it, and I also didn't want to.
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England opened up the world of literature for me. Not really having a world of my own, I made up for my disinheritance by absorbing the world of others... I loved them: George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens... I adopted them passionately.
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I'm not interested in who am I. I'm interested in what's gone, the disinheritance, what I've been able to become or learn or fuse with or not fuse with. A certain freedom comes... I like it that way.
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