The Throttled Street and Other Stories

By Gangadhar Gadgil

About The Book

“In the darkness the tall buildings on both sides of the narrow street loomed large and menacing like battlements. They seemed to be leaning dangerously over the street crushing it between them. Their enormous burden became almost palpable when one looked at the old street below, which looked strangely distorted in the dim yellowish light of the old street lamp that stood alone and forlorn in the corner. One had an eerie feeling of witnessing a suppressed and frozen scream.”

-A new, stunning collection of short stories by Gangadhar Gadgil, translated from Marathi by the author. The variety of theme, locale and presentation create a many-hued world-sensitively and suavely portrayed.

“As the originator of the ‘new short story’, Gangadhar Gadgil’s contribution to modern Marathi literature has been both innovative and influential. Before Gadgil, the short story in Marathi was mostly event and character based in structure and didactic or domestic in its orientation to life. Gadgil brought about a short story which dealt with a variety of worlds in terms of a new psychological perception of human nature, a modern ironic presentation of post-war social reality and a new style appropriate to these thematic compulsions.”
-The Sunday Times of India

“…Gadgil’s forte is his uncanny understanding of human psychology and the ruthless honesty with which he probes ‘freckled human nature’ (to use a phrase from Emily Dickinson).”
– Indian Literature

“…His stories seek to capture the obstinate asymmetry, the restless anarchy and the unruly inconsistency of human experience, unfettered by reductionist ideologies and homogenizing world views…”
- Times of India

ISBN : 81-7154-774-5

Format : Book