![]() ![]() ![]() Therefore, in Mehta's work, the city is portrayed as the ultimate locus for both intellectual investigation and self-investigation -due to the markedly autobiographical quality of Mehta's narrative. ![]() That is, Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found has a hybrid nature that mingles autobiographical aspects with depictions of the city in a symbiotic narrative in which the representations of both the city and of Mehta himself are mutually influential and interpenetrable. One of the most emblematic characteristics of Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found is precisely the imbrication Mehta engenders between the narrative about the city of Bombay and his own personal history. The present paper aims to explore some of the central features of Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found, written by Indian author Suketu Mehta, in order to make explicit how Mehta, through his exploration of the city of Bombay and of its 'extreme characters', weaves a new identity for the city he carried in his memory and, as a consequence, reconfigures the understanding he had of his own immigrant writer/artist identity. ![]()
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