The speech writer / illustrated by Bani Abidi ; edited by Sharmini Pereira.
Material type: TextPublication details: New Delhi : Raking Leaves : 2011. Description: 10 books in a slipcase : col. ill. ; 29 x 25 cm (in a box)ISBN:- 9780955667442 (hbk.)
- 23 702.81 SPE 005138
- HQ789 .A452 1996
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The Speech Writer is a fictional documentary presented in the form of ten flip books in a slipcase. The contents follow a day in the life of a retired political speech writer. Surrounded by the memories of his family and his vast collection of speeches, he is a creature of habit, idiosyncratic behaviour and reclusive existence. Retired from a lifetime of public service work, his connection with the outside world takes the form of a daily broadcast from the comfort of his home. Passersby, now accustomed to the perplexing array of loudspeakers wired to the outside of his house, stop to listen for a few moments each day. We cannot hear him speak but witness instead a moment of ultimate freedom in the life of a man who formulated the rhetoric, visions, dreams and declarations of others.
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