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Conflict as a Bridge Some Aspects of the Fiction of Modern India

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2024

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That the Indian approach to literature has always been different from the Western one would be a trite observation. To add that the Indian tradition distinguished literature, or more specifically poetry, from art, because the aims of the two were different would be correct but not sufficiently explanatory. To arrive at a fair appreciation of the predicament of the contemporary Indian writer who is heir to two incompatible literary traditions, it is most useful to compare the traditional or classical author-audience relationship in India with the one obtaining now and set the two in the perspective of historical development.

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Copyright © 1964 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)

References

1 The Natya Shastra of Bharata.

2 Raja Rao being another, more recent, instance.

3 Jainendra Kumar, Sunita (1936).

4 Ghare-Bahire (Bengali, 1916); the English translation appeared in 1919 under the title The Home and the World.

5 Agyeya, Apne Apne Ajnahi (1961); an English translation under the title To Each His Stranger may be published soon.

6 Agyeya, Kalakar Ki Mukti (1954).

7 Raghuvir Sahae, Jita-Jagta Vyakti (1958).