[close] At a time when the world of Sinhala arts and letters has been ignored or misrepresented in the West, it is timely that this insightful book has been published. <br />Professor Wimal Dissanayake has selected four of the leading cultural intellectuals in the country (Munidasa Cumaratunga, Martin Wickramasinghe, Ederiweera Sarachchandra and Gunadasa Amarasekera) to examine critically. He explains their innovative work in terms of the interplay between tradition and modernity in light of contemporary thinking on culture, history, language, and agency. [close]