''Trishanku'' () is a 1945 collection of
reflective essays in
Hindi
Hindi ( Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India. Hindi has been ...
language by the Indian writer Sachchidananda Vatsyayan (pen name
Agyeya
Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan (7 March 1911 – 4 April 1987), popularly known by his pen name Agyeya (also transliterated Ajneya, meaning 'the unknowable'), was an Indian writer, poet, novelist, literary critic, journalist, translator ...
), that mostly deals with the concept of Indian and Western poetics.
Background
''Trishanku'' was Agyeya's first collection of essays that had been published in various literary journals at different times. It contains 16 essay.
It was reprinted in 1973 by Soorya Prakashan Mandir.
Contents
Agyeya belongs to
Psychoanalytic
PsychoanalysisFrom Greek: + . is a set of theories and therapeutic techniques"What is psychoanalysis? Of course, one is supposed to answer that it is many things — a theory, a research method, a therapy, a body of knowledge. In what might ...
school of literary criticism.
Influenced by the theories of
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud ( , ; born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies explained as originating in conflicts ...
,
Alfred Adler
Alfred Adler ( , ; 7 February 1870 – 28 May 1937) was an Austrian medical doctor, psychotherapist, and founder of the school of individual psychology. His emphasis on the importance of feelings of belonging, family constellation and birth orde ...
and
T. S. Eliot, the volume has seven essays on theoretical and general subjects: "Sanskriti aur Paristhiti", "Kala Ka Swabhav aur Uddeshya", "Rudhi aur Maulikata" ("Tradition and Originali"), "Puran aur Sanskriti", "Paristhiti aur Sahityakar", "Sankrantikal Ki Kuchh Samasyayen" and "Chetana Ka Sansar". The volume has an appendix in six parts, which contains practical criticism of medieval and modern Hindi writings: "Keshav Ki Kavitai", "Char Natak", "Ek Bhoomika", "Do Phool", "Adhunik Kavi Mahadevi Verma" and "Vagartha Pratipattaye".
Agyeya described "Rudhi aur Maulikata" as a free translation of Eliot's "
Tradition and the Individual Talent".
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Reception
Due to Agyeya's treatment of subject and the freshness of his expression, ''Trishanku'' is considered a milestone in the development of Hindi critical writings.
References
External links
* {{Internet Archive, id=in.ernet.dli.2015.263893
Works by Agyeya
1945 non-fiction books