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            Preinhaelterová, Hana: Break-up of the Traditional Hindu Family as Reflected in Asapurna D

            Stories. 72 pp. Prague: Charles University, Faculty of Arts, 1995.
            ISBN 80-85899-09-4
            Joint family and its disintegration has been the most frequented topic of the modern Benga

            since its birth in the 19th century. Among the contemporary writers, it is Asapurna Debi (
            deals with the problem in the most thorough and perhaps most successful way. Two of the ma
            family relations tackled by her are worked out with remarkable refinement: the generation 

            the entry of women into public life. Although Asapurna is a superb story-teller, her narra
            psychologically and not in an epic manner, often by means of the hero's sudden epiphany. T

            publication analyses the author's methods and shows that Asapurna, with her first-hand exp
            problems of family life and with her impartial, pragmatic and humane attitude to their sol
            as a fine example of a good woman writer. To be used by librarians, specialists in Indian,

            Bengali literature.