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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Mohanty (died 1991) won both the Jnanpith and was the first-ever winner of the National Sahitya Akademi Award. He is a celebrated author writing in Oriya (aka Odia), the official language of the state of Orissa (aka Odisha)—along India’s north eastern coast. This is one of a few of his many books translated into English and it deals with the life and customs of an indigenous tribe and the farmer’s attachment to the land. In many ways, the story (written in 1945) is about the clash between modern and traditional practices and the narrative follows the change—indeed, the disintegration—of one family. And yet, for all the author’s dissatisfaction with the price paid for change, it is clear-eyed and condemns much about tradition-bound society as well. It’s well-translated, powerful and moving, and well worth the time, if you can find it. I know I’ll be on the lookout for more of his work. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Written originally in Oriya in 1945 and translated here for the first time, Paraja is a classic of modern Indian fiction. It tells on an epic scale the story of a tribal patriarch and his family in the mountainous jungles of Orissa. The slow decline in the fortunes of this family - from the quiet prosperity of a subsistence livelihood towards bondage to the local moneylender - is both poignantly individualized as well as symbolic of the erosion of a whole way of life within peasant communities. The novel, furthermore, transcends what it documents because its characters are not merely primitive tribesmen ensnared by a predatory moneylender. Mohanty's protagonists are also quintessentially men and women waging heroic but futile war against a hostile universe. As the citation of the Jnanpith Award of 1974 put it - 'in Mohanty's hands the social is lifted to the level of the metaphysical.' No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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