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| name = The Artist of Disappearance<br />
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| author = [[Anita Desai]]<br />
| country = India<br />
| language = English<br />
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| publisher = [[Chatto & Windus]]<br />
| pub_date = 2011<br />
| media_type = Hardcover, paperback, e-book<br />
| pages = 156<br />
| awards = [[PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction]] finalist 2012<br />
| isbn = 9780701186203<br />
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| oclc = 751789000<br />
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'''''The Artist of Disappearance''''' is a collection of novellas by Indian writer [[Anita Desai]]. It was published in the UK by [[Chatto & Windus]] in 2011, and was a finalist for the [[PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction]] in 2012.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Past Award Winners & Finalists {{!}} The PEN/Faulkner Foundation |url=https://www.penfaulkner.org/2011/08/01/past_award_winners/ |access-date=2023-03-29 |website=www.penfaulkner.org}}</ref><br />
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The book includes three novellas: ''The Museum of Final Journeys'', ''Translator Translated'' and ''The Artist of Disappearance''. [[Maggie Gee (novelist)|Maggie Gee]] described the volume as a "brilliant miniature exposé of contemporary culture" in her review in ''[[The Guardian]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Gee|first=Maggie|date=August 26, 2011|title=The Artist of Disappearance by Anita Desai – review|url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/aug/26/artist-disappearance-anita-desai-review|website=the Guardian}}</ref> The main themes of the book are the representation of what is vanishing and disappearing, the art of translation, and environmental destruction.<br />
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''The Museum of Final Journeys'' narrates the story of a collapsing art collection in a remote province of India. The novella addresses the theme of the ruin and the possibilities of connecting past and present through the art of narration.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Menozzi|first=Filippo|date=2016-05-03|title=Tracking down ruins: Anita Desai and the ethics of postcolonial writing|url=https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/3253/1/s1-ln20212590699972736-1939656818Hwf482797435IdV105608220620212590PDF_HI0001.pdf|journal=Journal of Postcolonial Writing|volume=52|issue=3|pages=319–330|doi=10.1080/17449855.2015.1104712|issn=1744-9855}}</ref><br />
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''Translator Translated'' deals with a troubled relationship between a writer and her translator, and what happens when the translator violates her position and role.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Rohter|first=Larry|date=January 10, 2012|title=Solitary Lives, Abruptly Interrupted|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/11/books/the-artist-of-disappearance-by-anita-desai-review.html}}</ref><br />
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''The Artist of Disappearance'' is about Ravi, a mysterious artist who lives in solitude in contact with nature, whose life is disturbed by the arrival of a film crew planning to document environmental destruction in the region. As [[Razia Iqbal]] writes in ''[[Wasafiri]]'', the novella addresses the effects of rapid industrialization in India and the question of how the writer should represent this process.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Iqbal|first=Razia|date=January 17, 2015|title=Review: The Artist of Disappearance by Anita Desai|url=https://www.wasafiri.org/article/razia-iqbal-on-the-artist-of-disappearance/|website=Wasafiri}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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==Further reading==<br />
*{{cite web |title=Book Review: 'The Artist Of Disappearance' |url=https://www.npr.org/2011/12/23/144195826/book-review-the-artist-of-disappearance |website=NPR.org|date=December 23, 2011|first=Alan|last=Cheuse}}<br />
*{{cite web |title=The Artist of Disappearance, By Anita Desai |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/artist-disappearance-anita-desai-2348788.html |website=The Independent |last1=Lakhani |first1=Nina |date=23 October 2011}}<br />
*{{Cite web|last=Charles|first=Ron|date=December 13, 2011|title=Book review: Gripping novellas in Anita Desai's ‘Artist of Disappearance’|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/anita-desais-the-artist-of-disappearance-reviewed-by-ron-charles/2011/12/02/gIQAH1CHsO_story.html|website=The Washington Post}}<br />
*{{cite web |last1=Bhutto |first1=Fatima |title=The Artist of Disappearance |url=https://www.ft.com/content/a865aa7a-bcf6-11e0-bdb1-00144feabdc0 |website=Financial Times |date=6 August 2011}}<br />
*{{cite web |last1=Boyagoda |first1=Randy |title=Anita Desai on Longing and Striving |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/11/books/review/the-artist-of-disappearance-three-novellas-by-anita-desai-book-review.html |website=The New York Times |date=9 December 2011}}<br />
*{{cite web |title=The Artist of Disappearance |url=https://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/entertainment/books/the-artist-of-disappearance/articleshow/16173880.cms |website=Mumbai Mirror |date=20 October 2011}}<br />
*{{cite web |last1=Tobar |first1=Hector |title=Book review: 'The Artist of Disappearance' by Anita Desai |url=https://www.latimes.com/books/la-xpm-2011-dec-11-la-ca-anita-desai-20111211-story.html |website=Los Angeles Times |date=11 December 2011}}<br />
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