DHUMKETU GUJARATI BOOKS SERIES

That most of these were written in verse form rather than prose means that they continue to be technically recognized as mostly poetry.

DHUMKETU GUJARATI BOOKS SERIES

Though not formally identified as such, our ancient mythological and religious texts have always been a series of short stories woven together into long multilayered epics. The short-story form has existed for a long time across the Indian subcontinent. The Evolution of the Gujarati Short Story Perhaps this translated volume of some of Dhumketu's finest short stories will go some distance towards building that reputation. Had this writer been more widely translated and read, his stature and skill as a pioneer of the literary short-story form in Gujarati would have been acknowledged as equal to that of Tolstoy, Chekhov, Tagore, and Premchand in their respective cultures and languages. This is also an apt description of Dhumketu's art and craft. Stefan Zweig once wrote about Tolstoy: 'One who sees so much and so well does not need to invent one who observes imaginatively does not need to create imagination. What's indispensable is a deeply insightful observance of one's world with a superior technical skill for capturing the hidden, nuanced and unusual details. To accomplish so much through allusions or sparks, writers need more than imaginative invention in their short stories.

Later, he released three more short-story collections with the same title. This last idea was so important to him that he titled his first collection Tankha, meaning 'sparksвЂќ. For him, the short story roused the imagination and emotions by saying what it must through only allusions or sparks. Beautifully translated for a wide new audience by Jenny Bhatt, these much-loved stories - like the finest literature - remain remarkable and relevant even today.Дhumketu, one of the towering figures of Gujarati literature, often described the short-story form as an incomparable flower in the garden of literature, as delicate as the juhi, as exquisitely beautiful as a golden bird, as electrifying as a bolt of lightning. Ratno Dholi brings together the first substantial collection of Dhumketu's work to be available in English. Characterized by a fine sensitivity, deep humanism, perceptive observation, and an intimate knowledge of both rural and urban life, his fiction has provided entertainment and edification to generations of Gujarati readers and speakers. When Dhumketu's first collection of short stories, Tankha, came out in 1926, it revolutionized the genre in India.

It is truly a work of art.The tragic love story of a village drummer and his dancer lover.ДЄ long-awaited letter that arrives too late.ДЄ tea-house near Darjeeling, run by a mysterious queen.

Dhumketu opens worlds upon and within worlds, swooping through times, places, moods and narrative styles in an intoxicating manner.

In this collection of stories, you go back in time to the age of Bimbisaar, move to Darjeeling just before and after a world war, swing into a newly Independent India, turn into the gallis of a slum, listen to a story that never continues beyond its opening line, feel the emotions of a man whose freedom fighting son was hanged. And so RatnoвЂ™s life changes when the rules of religion are invoked by a man who, for no particular reason, cannot bear to see happiness in other people.Д«ut there are no villages in вЂњThe Rebirth of PoetryвЂќ, a sci-fi-ish story set in a future where people, tired of the conflicts caused by differences, live perfectly unemotional and homogenous lives in a perfectly flat social structure until poetry and music arrive via visitors from the moon. Of course there is a snake in this Garden of Eden there are always snakes.

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