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Munshi Premchand, प्रेमचंद, , est un écrivain de langue hindi et ourdou. Il a d'abord écrit en ourdou, puis en hindi ; il appartient à la génération des écrivains progressistes, imprégnés des idées gandhiennes. On reconnaît dans le style de Premchand certaines influences du réalisme soviétique.

Plusieurs de ses romans sont pessimistes, comme Nirmalâ, qui relate les difficultés de deux belles-sœurs. Godân considéré comme son plus grand chef-d'œuvre, décrit la rencontre entre le monde rural et urbain. De nombreuses nouvelles sont traduites en anglais, français, italien et allemand. Deux de ses nouvelles ont été adaptées au cinéma par Satyajit Ray, pour Les Joueurs d'échecs en 1977 et Délivrance en 1981. Wikipedia  

✵ 31. juillet 1880 – 8. octobre 1936
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Munshi Premchand: Citations en anglais

“The feeling of motherhood in a woman becomes stronger as she grows older. In fact a time comes when every man is like a son in the eyes of a woman. There is not an ounce of sexual desire left in her heart. But his stage never comes in a man…he can never free himself from sexual desires.”

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In the novel Bhoot quoted in page=92.
Portrayal of Women in Premchands Stories A Critique

“My ideal of a woman is a combination of sacrifice, care and purity at one place. Sacrifice without a hope for reward, without showing any dissatisfaction and purity like Ceaser’s wife, which does not bring any regret.”

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He wrote many of his novels in Hindi on his avowed words, in page=90.
Portrayal of Women in Premchands Stories A Critique

“Like the great Indian writers of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, such as Rabindrnath Tagore and Bankin Chandra Chatterjee in Bengal, and Subramanya Bharati in Tamil nadu, premchand’s work was fired by a sense of intense nationalism, but he did not live long enough to see his country gain freedom.”

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In [age=11
THE PREMCHAND READER Selected Stories 1

“The most authentic and penetrating of Premchand’s portrayals center around village life. This was a life he knew intimately, since he had grown up in a village. Then as a teacher, and later an inspector of schools, he travelled extensively through the villages of eastern Uttar Pradesh.”

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In page=9
THE PREMCHAND READER Selected Stories 1

“Premachnad was always man of the people, a man of the soil. He spoke for country’s poor, not just the poor of his native state. With his powerful pen, he painted picture after picture of rural India, its largely static societt, its caste clashes as well its communal harmony, its poverty and its exploitation, as well as richness of character of so many of its people.”

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In page 10
THE PREMCHAND READER Selected Stories 1

“If ever anyone did something which might provoke communal sentiments, Premchand not only put down the incident but endeavoured to eradicate the very basis of such differences. Considerations of high and low, Hindu and Muslim, and untouchability were all anathema to him.”

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When he was superintendent of the schools boarding house of the National School quoted in "Munshi Premchand: The Voice of Truth", page =1915.

“Nervous like a knife, he cuts clear through hypocrisy and falsehood.”

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By Mulkraj Ananad on Premchand’s novel Godan, a novel of Peasant India” in [Premchand, Godan, http://books.google.com/books?id=9XcFkXR78BYC, 2002, Jaico Publishing House, 978-81-7224-219-0]

“Also Premchand can not be seen in isolation. He has to be placed in the colonial dispensation (that aimed, besides political subjugation at cultural conquest as part of its imperialist design) was integral in Premchand’s writings. Any viable reaction to this confrontation had to have a differential mix of both the new and the old.”

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Above two quotes by Charu Gupta a critique writing in her Essay “Portrayal of Women In Premchand’s stories: A critique”

“Premchand’s stories have a mixed legacy. Seen from a contemporary view point it is easy to see his ideal of womanhood the basis for women’s continued subordination withing the patriarchal family.”

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“If a woman does not get love in her life, it is better for her to die.”

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In page =90
Portrayal of Women in Premchands Stories A Critique

“It is the duty of a writer to protect and argue in favour of those who are oppressed, sufferers, whether an individual or a group deprived.”

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Spoke in a lecture quoted in page=96
Portrayal of Women in Premchands Stories A Critique

“Does being a man make all things forgivable and being a woman all things unforgivable?”

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Portrayal of Women in Premchands Stories A Critique

“For children, father is a luxurious item, - just like beans for the horse…. but mother is everything for the child. The child cannot bear separation from his mother even for a minute.”

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In his novel Ghar Jamai quoted in page= 92.
Portrayal of Women in Premchands Stories A Critique

“The future belongs to the peasants and workers…India cannot remain unaffected by these winds of change…Who had suspected before the Resolution the tremendous might of the exploited peoples of Russia.”

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After he published the Hindi novel in which the theme was about the oppressed and exploited Indian peasant quoted in [Anupa Lal, Munshi Premchand: The Voice of Truth, http://books.google.com/books?id=fTK-023B_wkC&pg=PA1900, 2002, Rupa, 978-81-7167-994-2, 1917]

“What greatness do I have that I have to tell anyone about? I live just like millions of people in this country; I am ordinary. My life is also ordinary. I am a poor school teacher suffering family travails. During my whole lifetime, I have been grinding away with the hope that I could become free of my sufferings. But I have not been able to free myself from suffering. What is so special about this life that needs to be told to anybody?”

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In Munshi Premchand:Biography, 10 December 2013, Internet Media Data Base http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0695919/bio,