Jaishankar Prasad - Makers of Indian Literature

Jaishankar Prasad - Makers of Indian Literature

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Book Specification

Item Code: IDE086
Author: Ramesh Chandra Shah
Publisher: Sahitya Akademi, Delhi
Language: English
Edition: 1994
ISBN: 8172016735
Pages: 84
Cover: Paperback
Other Details 8.5" X 5.5"
Weight 70 gm

Book Description

From the Jacket:

The eminent Hindi novelist, Jainendra Kumar, hailed Jaishankar Prasad as "the first great freethinker of our literature." The philosophy of Prasad is a heroic attempt to harmonize the ethical and the aesthetic, the pragmatic and the mystic insights into life that have been earned and lost and retrieved again and again in the course of Indian history. His poetic imagination is always controlled and moulded by his first-hand observations and experiences of life. His fiction and drama, for all their romantic and mystical atmosphere, are built on the foundations of a profound psychological realism.

In this first ever monograph written in English on Jaishankar Prasad - poet, playwright, novelist and short story writer - Ramesh Chandra Shah places him in the historical perspective, gives an account of his life and leads the reader to a better appreciation of his entire oeuvre.

CONTENTS

1. The Age 1
2. The Man 11
3. Early Poems and the 'Magic Fountain' 17
4. Chhayavad: Prasad Among His Contemporaries 22
5. Passion and Compassion 29
6. The Lessons of History 34
7. The Healer's Knife 46
8. A Lyrical Interlude 57
9. The Grand Synthesis 60
10. Epilogue 78

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