Frasi di Bankim Chandra Chatterji

Bankim Chandra Chatterji è stato uno scrittore bengalese.

Dopo aver lavorato presso un ufficio governativo, raggiunge il successo con i suoi romanzi di stampo cavalleresco, una novità per il contesto culturale in cui vive, contribuendo alla valorizzazione della cultura bengalese. Wikipedia  

✵ 26. Giugno 1838 – 8. Aprile 1894
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Bankim Chandra Chatterji: Frasi in inglese

“When a man is in doubt what to do, he goes wherever he happens to be first called.”

Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay libro Kapalkundala

Kopal-Kundala, Chapter IV: With the Kapálik translated by Henry Arthur Deuteros Phillips (1885)

“Prose must be written in language that is well understood by its readers. The world would hardly miss those literary works that are mastered by only half-a-dozen pundits.”

Peary Chand Mitra's Place in Bengali Literature (as quoted in Bengal Online http://bengalonline.sitemarvel.com/bankimchandra.asp)

“Woman is the crowning excellence of God's creation … Woman is light, man is shadow.”

Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay: From Bankim's novel Krishnakanta's Will, quoted from Elst, Koenraad (2001). Decolonizing the Hindu mind: Ideological development of Hindu revivalism. New Delhi: Rupa. p. 114-115

“Woman is the crowning excellence of God's creation, the shadow of the gods. Man the god's creation only. Woman is light, man is shadow.”

Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay: From Bankim's novel Krishnakanta's Will. Quoted in Elst, Koenraad (2001). Decolonizing the Hindu mind: Ideological development of Hindu revivalism. New Delhi: Rupa. p. 114-115

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