පව්කාරයාට ගල් ගැසීම

by Martin Wickramasinghe

This is a collection of Short Stories By Martin Wickramasinghe

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories

119 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1936

About the author

The search for roots is the central theme in Martin Wickramasinghe’s writings on the culture and life of the people of Sri Lanka. He imaginatively explored and applied modern knowledge in natural and social sciences, literature, linguistics, the arts, philosophy, education, and Buddhism and comparative religion to reach beyond the superficial emotionalism of vulgar nationalism, and guide us to the enduring roots of our common national identity that exists in the folklife and folk culture of Sri Lanka...

Martin Wickramasinghe’s vision was primarily nurtured in the tolerant, humane, realistic attitude to life traditional to Buddhist folk culture. He valued the intellectual freedom and independence inspired by the Buddha’s ‘Kalama Sutta’ which he saw as a tradition to question tradition, not unlike the Western scientific attitude. Through his writings, he consistently opposed dogmatism, casuistry, elitism, and oppression in any form, be it cultural, religious, political or social.

His works have been translated and published in English, Hindi, Tamil, Russian, Chinese, Romanian, Dutch, German, French and Japanese languages.

Reviews

[Sandy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Re-reading after 3 decades, still swimming in those memories..

Some books are like fine wine, the older they get, the better they taste. Same theory applies to this collection of short stories too. Everything is written based on the society back in 1930s but has anything in this book changed? I think not. The society is still the same, the human nature is still the same, if not become worse. Every single story leaves something to think about.

I wonder why todays' Sinhala authors don't write stuff like this. There's a world beyond, sex and murder.......

Book #32 of 2022.

[Dulanjalee Chandrasiri · Rating 5 out of 5]

කෙටිකතාවක්..
ඒත් එක හුස්මට කියවල ඉවර කරන්න හිතෙන් නෑ.. ටික ටික රස විදින්න හිතෙන්නේ.
ඒ තරම් වටින පොතක්.
හරිම වෙනස්.
කාලෙකට පස්සේ සාහිත්‍යයෙන් රසවත් වුනු පොතක් කියෙව්වෙ.(මට සාහිත්‍ය රසය අමතක වෙලා තියන කාලෙක)

මිනිස්සුන්ගේ ඇත්ත ස්වභාවය 1936 හෝ වර්තමානයේ හෝ වෙනස් වී නැති බව මේ පොත කියවද්දී  පැහැදිලි වෙනවා. 

[Makadure Danush]

good

[Aruni Erandhika]

i love to read

[Indika Kariyavasam Gamage]

Good

[Chamidu]

B

[Dunith · Rating 5 out of 5]

SriLankan short stories at its very best

[Nalina · Rating 4 out of 5]

collection of short Stories By martin wickramasinghe