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The Life of Sharatchandra Chattopadhyay. Drifter and Dreamer.
Narashingha P. Sil
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Hardback. The Life of Sharatchandra Chatopadhyay presents a historical critical assessment of the novelist's upbringing and the experiences that informed his work. The author exposes Sharatchandra's innate conservative worldview and his romantic platonic concept of human sexuality that informs all his love stories. Num Pages: 180 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 2BM; BGL; DSB; HBJF; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 162 x 17. Weight in Grams: 422.
Sharatchandra Chattopadhyay has been the most popular writer of novels and short stories in his native Bengaland in India at large. Despite this, he remains unrecognized in the English speaking world. Narasingha P. Sil fills this void by presenting a historical critical assessment of his upbringing and the experiences that influenced his masterful and magnificent work. The Life of Sharatchandra Chattopadhyay rescues the authentic man, a caste-conscious and patriarchal Brahmin of colonial Bengal, from the cuckoo land of gratuitous praise and panegyric showered on the Aparajeya Kathasilpi, the “invincible” wordsmith. The author exposes Sharatchandra’s innate conservative worldview and his romantic ... Read more
Sharatchandra Chattopadhyay has been the most popular writer of novels and short stories in his native Bengaland in India at large. Despite this, he remains unrecognized in the English speaking world. Narasingha P. Sil fills this void by presenting a historical critical assessment of his upbringing and the experiences that influenced his masterful and magnificent work. The Life of Sharatchandra Chattopadhyay rescues the authentic man, a caste-conscious and patriarchal Brahmin of colonial Bengal, from the cuckoo land of gratuitous praise and panegyric showered on the Aparajeya Kathasilpi, the “invincible” wordsmith. The author exposes Sharatchandra’s innate conservative worldview and his romantic ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
180
Condition
New
Number of Pages
180
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611475074
SKU
V9781611475074
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About Narashingha P. Sil
Narasingha P. Sil taught at colleges in Calcutta and Chandannagar for three years and at the University of Benin for seven years before moving to Western Oregon University in January 1987, from where he retired as professor of history in July 2011. His working paper “The Babu of Colonial Calcutta: A Reassessment” was published by Monash University Press in 2009. ... Read more
Reviews for The Life of Sharatchandra Chattopadhyay. Drifter and Dreamer.
Drifter and Dreamer is a copiously researched and elegantly written biography . . . This book ought to be translated in Bengali for there is no biography of Sharatchandra in Bengali that can match Sil's comprehensive and excellent life history of the famed author and storyteller.
Dilip K. Basu, professor of history and founding director of Satyajit Ray Archive, ... Read more
Dilip K. Basu, professor of history and founding director of Satyajit Ray Archive, ... Read more