Author: A Selection
Editor(s): Rajendra Awasthy
Publisher: Fusion Books
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 136
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8128804782
Description
In a vast country like India, where great regional differences in culture and behaviour obtain, and the various languages retain their exclusive origins and identities, it is not possible to maintain a complete and continuous communication between different parts of the country on a national scale. There cannot be a truly meaningful awareness of the country's total literary activity and output without such intercommunication through the medium of translation. Translations of some of the better known works of Indian literary giants like Tagore, Premchand and others have been successfully undertaken and their writings have been read and enjoyed in all parts of India. There has, however, been no systematic endeavour to take up the important works of each region and present them in a widely understood language.
Fusion books has planned the publication of a series of anthologies of English translations of modern short stories written in the different Indian languages, with the aim of bringing the people of India closer and making Indian literature available in other parts of the word. The task of selecting, editing and translating the stories has been entrusted to competent writers and critics and the series, when complete, will present a full picture of the contemporary short story in India.
Contents
Introduction
The Guard of Many Loves
Tara Sihun
Dasaundha Singh
Love Play
A Room 10 X 8
The Unfortunate One
The Old woman
Moti
A Martyr's Body Never Tells a Lie
The Common Wall
Blades of Grass
The Way Home
The Shirt
The Coconut
A Season to Die
Fraud
Metamorphosis
Notes on the Authors