Paraja Paperback / softback
by Gopinath (, Paraja, San Jose State University) Mohanty
Paperback / softback
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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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:384 pages
- Publisher:OUP India
- Publication Date:01/12/1997
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- ISBN:9780195623918
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Unavailable
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:384 pages
- Publisher:OUP India
- Publication Date:01/12/1997
- Category:
- ISBN:9780195623918