Gaurav Monga's Costumes of the Living functions less as naked commentary on contemporary fashion than as a sartorial taxonomy of the human system and its emotional minutiae. Through a series of shifting sketches, fragments and confessional monologues, identities are modified or exchanged, the living are transformed into the dead, the past and the present change places, space becomes time and time becomes spatialized, clothes become bodies and bodies clothes; familiar garments stand revealed as extended physiologies and carriers of sympathetic magic. Clothes, Monga reveals, are often less mere garments than subsumed environments, domestic economies, anonymous lovers and judges, passing from body to body, moving with their owners, sometimes sinister mimics or co-conspirators, at other times material witnesses of grief, fear, desire and metamorphosis.A precise and necessary new release in the expanding Neo-Decadent catalogue. Ownership is non-negotiable. Read it now and in public.

Costumes of the Living

Literature & Fiction

Monga, Gaurav

History & Criticism

Snuggly Books

Quirkily absurd and surreal miniatures from author Gaurav Monga that blur reality and the imagination. These are stories told with a minimalist palette and a highly original aesthetic. Contains Names, The Family Nose, Little Box, Stomach, Missing Gautam, The Trees, Yes/No, Running Away from Ranjan and Clown.

Family Matters

Eibonvale Press

Ruins

Poetry

Desirepaths Publishers

My Father, the Watchmaker

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Hawakal Publishers

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