PREMCHAND ON LITERATURE AND LIFE: SELECTIONS

Premchand on Literature and Life is a collection of Premchand''s (1880-1936) fifty non-fiction prose pieces translated into English. The selected pieces in the collection compirse his editorials and articles which appeared in literary magazines and periodicals like Hans and Zamana and cover a period from the early 1920s till 1936. In them Premchand emerges as a perspective literary critic and social commentator holding forth on literature his literary world and the socio-cultural milieu of his ties. His keen observations and insightful critique are a call for evolving appropriate processes and agencies to encourage literary creativity and evaluation. In the selected prose pieces Premchand views are like a prism through which can be assessed a nation''s literary quotient.