Nirmal Verma : A Profile
A
Collection Series on various contemporary Hindi
writers was edited in India for the Indology Department of Tuebingen University, Germany. The book at review is the Collection Series on Nirmal Verma, a Hindi writer of repute.
Nirmal is one of the few writers who have exerted seminal influence on the contemporary Hindi
literary scene. This Collection Series on him contains articles, talks, reviews, interviews, reminiscences, addresses, and other such
materials collected
largely from a wide range of magazines, journals and newspapers. They are recently published and most of them have not found place in any collection so far. His demise on 25th October, 2005 left the literary
world quite stunned--both his opponents and fans alike. Tributes to him that followed immediately after his passing away are substantially significant. In the last section of this collection you will find them all. All these scattered materials brought together in this form are very useful and come handy to European scholars interested in Hindi literature. They are capable of giving fresh insight into Nirmal's finer literary sensibilities, his unique psyche, his writings and achievements, his life-style and reservations. These largely supplement the materials already in book-forms and are, therefore, indispensable to those preparing to visit or revisit the
writer for a deeper and completer understanding of his world.
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