History and literature
/ Ashin Das Gupta ; translated by Rimli Sengupta ; edited by Uma das Gupta
. — Kolkata : Sampark, 2023.
86 p. ; 22 cm.
First published as Itihas o Sahitya in Bengali by Ananda Publishers, Calcutta in 1989
History and literature -- Appendix - 1 History and literature -- Appendix - 2 Montaillou: a village in the Pyrenees -- Appendix - 3 The Pyrenees shepherds
"How do history and literature relate to one another, where do they converge, and where do they diverge? This relatively small text on History and Literature by Ashin Das Gupta throw up ideas on these questions explores an entire gamut of ideas that constitute conceptions of history and of literature. he takes the reader through his reading and thoughts on Indian and western writers and texts. His analysis and reflections sensitize us to the nuances of historical thinking and literary imagination. In a short span of less than hundred pages a world of thousand conceptions unfolds for the reader." -- Book cover
