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An isolation produced by the insensitive socioeconomic system in the short story "The Shroud"​

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The Shroud" (1935) is the last story by Dhanpat Rai Shrivastav "Premchand" (1880-1936), father of the Urdu and Hindi short-story tradition(s). I think kafan is the best South Asian short story, in any language, that I've ever read. The harshness and bleakness of the story, the utter awfulness of the two characters, balanced against the (sporadic, limited, but genuine) sympathy we're forced to feel for them, and even a sort of morbidly comic effect-- how far beyond the achievements of Premchand's previous stories! And above all there's the extraordinary final scene at the wine-house, in which the whole human condition seems to be held up for reflection in the light of pie-in-the-sky longings, bread-on-the-ground cynicism, touches of (sincere?) compassion, absurdity, and the wild mood swings of intoxication. The scene becomes a stage for Ghisu and Madhav's last drunken dance, under a sky full of coldly brilliant stars, before an audience of desperately poor peasants, as they sing about a murderous beauty and the glance of her eye. Then, of course, they pass out, ending the story abruptly and depriving us of any final authorial interpretation.

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