बारह घंटे

by Yashpal, Yashpal

बारह घंटे, यशपाल का अपने पाठकों के लिए एक वैचारिक आमन्त्रण है। ईसाई समाज की पृष्ठभूमि में घटित इस उपन्यास के केन्द्र में विधवा विनी और विधुर फेंटम हैं जो कुछ विशेष परिस्थितियों में परम्पर भावनात्मक बंधन में बंध जाते हैं।

उपन्यास की नायिका विनी की ओर से इस वृत्तान्त को ‘पाठकों के सम्मुख एक अपील के रूप में’ रखते यशपाल इस उपन्यास के माध्यम से अनुरोध करते हैं कि ‘विनी को प्रेम अथवा दाम्पत्य निष्ठा निबाह न सकने का कलंक देने का निर्णय करते समय, विनी के व्यवहार को केवल परम्परागत धारणाओं और संस्कारों से ही न देखें। उसके व्यवहार को नर-नारी के व्यक्तिगत जीवन की आवश्यकता और पूर्ति की समस्या के रूप में तर्क तथा अनुभूति के दृष्टिकोण से, मानव में व्याप्त प्रेम की प्राकृतिक अनिवार्य आवश्यकता के रूप में भी देखें। वे पूछते हैं कि क्या नर-नारी के परस्पर आकर्षण अथवा दाम्पत्य सम्बन्ध को केवल सामाजिक कर्तव्य के रूप में ही देखना अनिवार्य है।

आर्यसमाजी वर्जनाओं और दृष्टि की तर्कपूर्ण आलोचना करने वाला, यशपाल का एक विचारोत्तेजक उपन्यास !

112 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2010

About the author

See also यशपाल

Yashpal (3 December 1903 – 26 December 1976) was a Hindi-language author who is sometimes considered to be the most gifted since Premchand. A political commentator and a socialist who had a particular concern for the welfare of the poor and disadvantaged, he wrote in a range of genres, including essays, novels and short stories, as well as a play, two travel books and an autobiography. He won the Hindi-language Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel, Meri Teri Uski Baat in 1976 and was also a recipient of the Padma Bhushan.

Yashpal's writings form an extension to his earlier life as a revolutionary in the cause of the Indian independence movement.

Reviews

[Kushal Srivastava · Rating 3 out of 5]

It'd have been better had Yashpal learnt it to let go sometimes. Yashpal was a revolutionary and probably that mindset to change the world never left him. All his stories are rife with questioning the social norms, the ethics, and moral questions. Yashpal was an extreme rationalist and a man well advanced beyond his era. But that has led to a certain preachiness in all his stories, it seems like talking to a friend who is always that uptight dick about things, there's never a loose moment in life with him. Hardly any humor, all the characters are almost always talking about moral dilemmas.

I guess Yashpal was just way too much pissed about the world he was living in, like we are as well. The difference being he sought to change it while we don't give a fuck about it.

[Rishi Katiyar · Rating 2 out of 5]

12 घंटे के चक्कर में मेरे ३ घंटे बर्बाद हो गए .

[MUDIT RANKA · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not good