হরিচরণ

by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay

Genres: Fiction

Unknown Binding

About the author

Complete works of Sarat Chandra (শরৎ রচনাবলী) is now available in this third party website:
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Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay (also spelt Saratchandra) (Bengali: শরৎচন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়) was a legendary Bengali novelist from India. He was one of the most popular Bengali novelists of the early 20th century.

His childhood and youth were spent in dire poverty as his father, Motilal Chattopadhyay, was an idler and dreamer and gave little security to his five children. Saratchandra received very little formal education but inherited something valuable from his father—his imagination and love of literature.

He started writing in his early teens and two stories written then have survived—‘Korel’ and ‘Kashinath’. Saratchandra came to maturity at a time when the national movement was gaining momentum together with an awakening of social consciousness.

Much of his writing bears the mark of the resultant turbulence of society. A prolific writer, he found the novel an apt medium for depicting this and, in his hands, it became a powerful weapon of social and political reform.

Sensitive and daring, his novels captivated the hearts and minds of thousands of readers not only in Bengal but all over India.

Some of his best known novels are Palli Samaj (1916), Charitraheen (1917), Devdas (1917), Nishkriti (1917), Srikanta in four parts (1917, 1918, 1927 and 1933), Griha Daha (1920), Sesh Prasna (1929) and Sesher Parichay published posthumously (1939).

"My literary debt is not limited to my predecessors only. I'm forever indebted to the deprived, ordinary people who give this world everything they have and yet receive nothing in return, to the weak and oppressed people whose tears nobody bothers to notice and to the endlessly hassled, distressed (weighed down by life) and helpless people who don't even have a moment to think that: despite having everything, they have right to nothing. They made me start to speak. They inspired me to take up their case and plead for them. I have witnessed endless injustice to these people, unfair intolerable indiscriminate justice. It's true that springs do come to this world for some - full of beauty and wealth - with its sweet smelling breeze perfumed with newly bloomed flowers and spiced with cuckoo's song, but such good things remained well outside the sphere where my sight remained imprisoned. This poverty abounds in my writings."

Reviews

[Ësrât · Rating 2 out of 5]

এহেন অসমাপ্ত শরৎলেখনীর সাথে যে পরিচয় হতে পারে তাহা আমার চিন্তাতীত ছিল

রেটিং:🌠🌠

[Tusar Abdullah Rezbi · Rating 2 out of 5]

হরিচরণরে নিয়া আরো কিছু লিখলে ভালে হইতো। এতদ্রুত সমাপ্তি টানা ঠিক হয় নাই। অসমাপ্ত....

[Fariha Rahman Bonhi · Rating 5 out of 5]

সব ক্ষেত্রে আত্মসম্মান বোধ দেখাতে নেই।বিশেষত যেখানে নিজের দোষটাই ষোলো আনা থাকে সেখানে অন্ততঃ অন্যের সাথে একটু ভালো ব্যবহার করা আবশ্যক। তা সে হোক না বাড়ির চাকর, তাতে কী ই বা এসে যায় দোষটা তো আমার।

এক মনিব আর তার ভৃত্যের কাহিনি। ভৃত্যের প্রতি মনিবের অধিক স্নেহ আর অধিক নির্ভরশীলতাই যেন একসময় পৃথ্বীর অভিশাপ হয়ে নেমে আসে ভৃত্যের জীবনে!!!!

[অতন্দ্রীলা · Rating 3 out of 5]

এক অনাথ বালকের এবং তার মনিবদের নিয়ে কাহিনী-গল্প।
যে বাড়িতে কাজ করেছে তাদের সাথে সম্পর্ক নিয়েই গল্পের প্লট।
ভালো লেগেছে।

[Mubtasim Fuad · Rating 4 out of 5]

শরৎচন্দ্রের গল্প -- সমাপ্তিতে যদি মৃত্যু না থাকে তবে কীভাবে তা পূর্ণতা পাবে ?

[Ishtiyak Fahmi · Rating 3 out of 5]

হইয়াও হইলো না শেষ টাইপ লাগলো!