Ḍāna Kvigjoṭa
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra · 1896 · Hindi
Don Quixote — arguably the first novel, about a man who has read too many books and believes them. Reasonable place to start anything.
An editors' list
The European novel, in Hindi
Cervantes, Flaubert, Brontë, Zola, Dumas, Kafka, Nabokov — all of them in Hindi, most of them for decades. A catalogue of a language is also a record of what that language decided to go and fetch.
7 books
Madama Bovari
Gustave Flaubert · 2004 · Hindi
Madame Bovary in Hindi. Flaubert on a woman who wants a different life and the provincial arrangement that will not permit one.
Jhañjhā bhavana
Emily Brontë · 2000 · Hindi
Wuthering Heights. Emily Brontë's only novel, and still the least comfortable book on most lists of romantic classics.
Kāphkā kī carcita kahāniyām̐
Franz Kafka · 2006 · Hindi
Kafka's stories in Hindi — the shorter work, where the machinery is at its most efficient.
Nana.
Émile Zola · 1997 · Hindi
Zola on Paris, money and appetite. He wrote twenty novels to make one argument about heredity and society, and this is among the ones that survived the argument.
Qaidī
Alexandre Dumas · 2006 · Hindi
Dumas in Hindi. Nobody has ever needed to be persuaded to read a Dumas plot in any language.
Premikaem
D. H. Lawrence · 1957 · Hindi
D. H. Lawrence, translated into Hindi — an author banned or bowdlerised in his own language for most of his career, quietly available in another.
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