The Final Question
A Classics, Indian Literature, Asian Literature book. Is the main idea about rejection of archaic, obsolete morms, traditions of society. Norms which are considered as reverence...
‘Like Dickens, Saratchandra had a bag of wonderful tales’—The HinduThe Final Question (Shesh Prashna) is one of Saratchandra Chattopadhyay’s last novels and perhaps his most radically innovative. The novel caused a sensation when it was first published in 1931, drawing censure from conservative critics but enthusiastic support from general readers, especially women.The heroine, Kamal, is exceptional for her time. She lives and travels by herself, has relationships with various men, looks poverty and suffering in the face, and asserts the autonomy of the individual being. In the process, she tears apart the frame of the expatriate Bengali society of Agra, where she lives. Through Kamal, Saratchandra questions Indian tradition and the norms of nationhood and womanhood.The Final Question...
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Is the main idea about rejection of archaic, obsolete morms, traditions of society. Norms which are considered as reverence to Indian culture.Or is it more about touching the base of these traditions and norms. To make the changes in the existing traditions.I believe it was both. With both ideas juxtaposed in the story.I am no one to... Written in a way- with sharp edges, whose sharpness shall cut numerous facets- in the form of questions. It challenges social customs which shall push you into an arena of skepticism, even if the person prior to reading it was inclined to those very same traditional belief systems- which we shelter and accumulate in a region within... I never understood the book as a whole.
