![]() ![]() It is noteworthy that each part of Srikanta has aimlessness as its leitmotif. ![]() ![]() He could not have reached a final destination even if Sharatchandra added four more parts simply because of his rudderless vagabondage. He is sailing from port to port in the four parts of his life, though there’s no sign of his reaching sam -a destination. We discover an uninhibited, asocial, and rootless nomad in Srikanta. Ī distinguished scholar of Bengali literature observes about the four-part novel: Until then I shall not write another line on the novel. ![]() Anyway kindly let me know the readers’ outrage. I had hoped that the slanders and the ridicules in my story, not deserving of a spot in your magazine would nevertheless be found publishable by another journal….Should you want, I’ll continue writing…But please see that I remain anonymous. I never thought my “Srikanter Bhramankahini” worthy of publication in the Bharatbarsa, nor do I think it now, though I hoped that someone would publish it. After publishing the first installment of his novel in Bharatbarsa he wrote Haridas Chattopadhyay, proprietor of the distinguished publishing house of Calcutta, Gurudas Chattopadhyay & Sons: Puzzlingly enough, the novel that had elevated Sharatchandra to the rank of the greatest prose writer of late colonial India, was seen as unsuitable for publication by the author himself. ![]()
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