Gaurishankar govardhanram joshi biography books
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The most substantial selection in English of short stories by Dhumketu, a pioneer of the short story form in Gujarati literature, is brought together in this new translation by Jenny Bhatt. Dhumketu, the pen-name of Gaurishankar Govardhanram Joshi, was a prolific writer in the first half of the 20th century, producing 500 short stories, over 35 novels and several plays. He also published travelogues, essays, translations and literary criticism.
In her introduction, translator Jenny Bhatt makes a strong case for a re-evaluation of Dhumketu’s work. She argues that if Dhumketu had been more widely translated and read in his time, he would have been considered the equal of Tolstoy, Chekov and Tagore. She writes that her own work, she hopes, may go some way to redress the balance.
The key to understanding Dhumketu is his belief that the short story is most successful when it uses allusions or “sparks” to fire the reader’s emotions or thoughts. Instead of spelling out an exact description of a character or direct criticism of the society in which he lived, Dhumketa offers hints (and occasionally hard truths) which allow the reader to fill in the gaps using their own imagination.
This device is at work in The Noble Daughters-in-Law, a tragic tale of two widowed women.
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The Gujarati short-story writer Dhumketu was born Gaurishankar Govardhanram Joshi in 1892, 18 years after the American poet Robert Frost’s birth. Dhumketu died in 1965, two years after Frost. I conflate the lives of these two men not because they were contemporaries, which they were, but rather to suggest that short stories and poems are siblings that cross literary borders.
In his Guide to the Craft of Fiction, Stephen Koch writes, “A short story, like a lyric poem,… may use its narrative as much to establish and fortify an image as to follow the tale to its dramatic outcome.”
Koch proceeds to use Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” to make his case. He insists that “the poem could be a short story”: there’s a setting (“Between the woods and frozen lake”); a moment in time (“The darkest evening of the year”); characters (the narrator, his horse, and the man “Whose woods these are”); and there’s conflict of whether to stay or go (“The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep”).
In the same way that Koch says that Frost’s “poem has all the elements of a story collapsed within a single murmuring image,” I believe that Dhumketu’s short stories have all the elements of poetry built on the foundation of memorable
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Dhumketu (writer)
Indian litt‚rateur (1892–1965)
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Early life
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