FIFTY-FIVE PILLARS, RED WALLS

Publisher:
SPEAKING TIGER
| Author:
Usha Priyamvada , Daisy Rockwell (Translator)
| Language:
English
| Format:
Paperback
Publisher:
SPEAKING TIGER
Author:
Usha Priyamvada , Daisy Rockwell (Translator)
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First published in 1961, Usha Priyamvada’s debut novel Pachpan Khambe, Laal Deewaarein is located within the boundaries of an all-women’s college in Delhi. Behind its walls is Sushma Sharma?lecturer, warden, single, and sole provider for her large family. Despite her relative youth and elegance, she is resigned to the regimented loneliness of her life, until a chance meeting with the charismatic Neel. Then, long-thwarted desires uncurl and the shackles she has accepted suddenly begin to seem unbearable. But the world around her is still unchanged, and independence still causes scandal?

In spare, evocative prose, Fifty-five Pillars, Red Walls skilfully explores the physical, mental and social paradigms which locked so many women into narrow ideals, as they still do. Daisy Rockwell’s pitch-perfect translation brings this quietly intense, poignant and pathbreaking Hindi novel into the blazing spotlight of classic Indian literature for the first time.

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First published in 1961, Usha Priyamvada’s debut novel Pachpan Khambe, Laal Deewaarein is located within the boundaries of an all-women’s college in Delhi. Behind its walls is Sushma Sharma?lecturer, warden, single, and sole provider for her large family. Despite her relative youth and elegance, she is resigned to the regimented loneliness of her life, until a chance meeting with the charismatic Neel. Then, long-thwarted desires uncurl and the shackles she has accepted suddenly begin to seem unbearable. But the world around her is still unchanged, and independence still causes scandal?

In spare, evocative prose, Fifty-five Pillars, Red Walls skilfully explores the physical, mental and social paradigms which locked so many women into narrow ideals, as they still do. Daisy Rockwell’s pitch-perfect translation brings this quietly intense, poignant and pathbreaking Hindi novel into the blazing spotlight of classic Indian literature for the first time.

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उषा प्रियम्वदा

शिक्षा : इलाहाबाद विश्वविद्यालय से अंग्रेज़ी साहित्य में पीएच.डी., इंडियाना यूनिवर्सिटी, ब्लूमिंगटन, अमेरिका में तुलनात्मक साहित्य में दो वर्ष पोस्ट-डॉक्टरल शोध। अध्यापन के प्रथम तीन वर्ष दिल्ली के लेडी श्रीराम कॉलेज में, तदुपरान्त इलाहाबाद विश्वविद्यालय में दो वर्ष में सम्पन्न करके, विस्कांसिन विश्वविद्यालय मेडिसन के दक्षिण एशियाई विभाग में प्रोफ़ेसर रहीं। हिन्दी और अंग्रेज़ी, दोनों ही भाषाओं में समान रूप से दक्ष उषा प्रियम्वदा ने साहित्य सृजन के लिए हिन्दी और समीक्षा, अनुवाद और अन्य बौद्धिक क्षेत्रों के लिए अंग्रेज़ी का चयन किया।

प्रकाशित पुस्तकें : उपन्यास : ‘पचपन खम्भे लाल दीवारें’ (1961), ‘रुकोगी नहीं राधिका’ (1966), ‘शेष यात्रा’ (1984), ‘अन्तर-वंशी’ (2000), ‘भया कबीर उदास’ (2007); कहानी-संग्रह : ‘फिर बसंत आया’ (1961), ‘ज़‍िन्दगी और गुलाब के फूल’ (1961), ‘एक कोई दूसरा’ (1966), ‘कितना बड़ा झूठ’, ‘मेरी प्रिय कहानियाँ’, ‘शून्य एवं अन्य रचनाएँ’, ‘सम्पूर्ण कहानियाँ’, ‘प्रतिनिधि कहानियाँ’ (1997)।

इसके अतिरिक्त भारतीय साहित्य, लोककथा एवं मध्यकालीन भक्ति काव्य पर अनेक लेख जो अंग्रेज़ी में समय-समय पर प्रकाशित हुए। मीराबाई और सूरदास के अंग्रेज़ी अनुवाद ‘साहित्य अकादेमी’, नई दिल्ली ने पुस्तक रूप में प्रकाशित किए। उन्होंने आधुनिक हिन्दी कहानियों के भी अनुवाद किए।

इंडियन स्टडीज विभाग से संलग्न रहते हुए 1977 में उन्हें 'फुल प्रोफ़ेसर ऑफ़ इंडियन लिट्रेचर’ का पद मिला। 2002 में अवकाश लेकर अब पूरा समय लेखन, अध्ययन और बाग़वानी में बिता रही हैं।

 

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