Giriraj Kisor's Yatraem: A Hindu novel analysed

The book under review is one of the few that have undertaken to analyze a Hindi novel. For some reason, in-depth analyses of novels written in Hindi have attracted neither Western nor Indian scholars. Among Indologists there is a long tradition of presenting critical editions of older literary texts, but when it comes to modern literature and modern theories of literature, the lack of a similar effort is almost total. Nevertheless, Theo Damsteegt undertakes the difficult and pioneering task of applying a particular method of analysis to a Hindi novel. That which he uses is the method of narratology as outlined by Mieke Bal, Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan, and Franz K. …