Author : Govind Mishra
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN 13 : 8184303300
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (843 download)
Book Synopsis DAMN HISTORY by : Govind Mishra
Download or read book DAMN HISTORY written by Govind Mishra and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What attracted me towards Govind’s stories was a strange kind of innocence which is reflected there. The injured in the story – be it a person; a character or his/her feelings – about whom we don’t know much nor the author tells much; just the feeling of being injured... it comes out with such passion that is seldom seen in other story-writers.” So said Nirmal Verma about Govind Mishra’s short stories. Another prominent short story writer of Hindi Shailesh Matiyani opined – ‘Even though writing on both the worlds – the inner and the outer – Govind Mishra saved himself from the dangers of both realism and romanticism. That way he comes to belong to the tradition of not so much Jainendra; Ajneya or Nirmal Verma but that of Premchand.’ Having created more than a thousand characters in his fiction; Govind Mishra’s portrayal extends from villages; to towns; to cities; to metros and even up to foreign melieu. ‘Few writers have such a big range’ – said Srilal Shukla of Rag Darbari fame. ‘Damn History’ attempts to present in English for the first time; representative stories of the author; selected from more than fifteen collections of his short stories in Hindi; 1965 onwards.