Crystallized Memories ; Award Winning Telugu Essays
Book Details
Author(s)Chkuri Rama Rao&M.V.Chalapathi Rao
PublisherSahitya Akademi
ISBN / ASIN8126021632
ISBN-139788126021635
Sales Rank12,708,281
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
Pages: 304
About the Author
Crystallized Memories is the translation of Chekuri Rama Raos (1934) Smriti Kinankam. There are three parts in this Smriti Kinankam, Mine, Mirth, Melancholy combined together make this book. It is a collection of biographical and autobiographical essays which objectively discusses contemporary the important literary events and great personalities of Telugu poetry. In this work he has used reminiscences as a genre of literary criticism. By reading any of the essays the reader would be benefitted either from the point of knowledge or in terms of feeling. These essays are considered a worthwhile contribution to Indian criticism in Telugu. Chekuri Rama Rao was honoured with Sahitya Akademi Award in 2002 for this work.
M.V.Chalapathi Rao is a well known writer and translator
Foreword
Even Among Atheists, There Would Be Confirmed Scholars
Once or twice I tactfully escaped from the audacity of writing prefaces to Chera's books. This time, I could not and so, I am writing. Whether you would read it or turn over the leaves, it is up to you. You would have by this time understood the reason for my escaping. Yet I would recount it and tell you the reason for writing this. I have a crazy belief that if a preface is to be written to any book, the one writing it should be highly qualified than the writer of the book. I call this a crazy belief as this does not prove true in many cases and also due to the reason, that somehow or the other, I am not getting away. We cannot undertake such an audacious step regarding those regarded by us with a sense of awe. Chera is deeply read in the traditional literature. For analysing it, he has with him, besides the normal tools like the traditional grammars and rhetorical texts etc., extraordinary tools like historical social and psychological in- sights etc. These are enough, ~ suppose. Coming down to
About the Author
Crystallized Memories is the translation of Chekuri Rama Raos (1934) Smriti Kinankam. There are three parts in this Smriti Kinankam, Mine, Mirth, Melancholy combined together make this book. It is a collection of biographical and autobiographical essays which objectively discusses contemporary the important literary events and great personalities of Telugu poetry. In this work he has used reminiscences as a genre of literary criticism. By reading any of the essays the reader would be benefitted either from the point of knowledge or in terms of feeling. These essays are considered a worthwhile contribution to Indian criticism in Telugu. Chekuri Rama Rao was honoured with Sahitya Akademi Award in 2002 for this work.
M.V.Chalapathi Rao is a well known writer and translator
Foreword
Even Among Atheists, There Would Be Confirmed Scholars
Once or twice I tactfully escaped from the audacity of writing prefaces to Chera's books. This time, I could not and so, I am writing. Whether you would read it or turn over the leaves, it is up to you. You would have by this time understood the reason for my escaping. Yet I would recount it and tell you the reason for writing this. I have a crazy belief that if a preface is to be written to any book, the one writing it should be highly qualified than the writer of the book. I call this a crazy belief as this does not prove true in many cases and also due to the reason, that somehow or the other, I am not getting away. We cannot undertake such an audacious step regarding those regarded by us with a sense of awe. Chera is deeply read in the traditional literature. For analysing it, he has with him, besides the normal tools like the traditional grammars and rhetorical texts etc., extraordinary tools like historical social and psychological in- sights etc. These are enough, ~ suppose. Coming down to
