Kandukuri Viresalingam ( Telugu కందుకూరి వీరేశలింగం , April 16, 1848 - May 27, 1919 ) - Indian poet and writer in Telugu , playwright , journalist , translator , scholar.
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- In this Telugu name, the surname (Kandukuri) is in front of the personal name.
Biography
Born in a village near Rajahmundry (modern state of Andhra Pradesh ). In 1852, he lost his father. He was under the care of his grandmother. The following year he entered a local school. In 1860, he was enrolled in a public school in Rajahmundry, where he received a classical education. In 1867, he tried to enter the civil service, however unsuccessfully.
After that, he focused on social activities. At the same time, he began his career as a teacher. In 1874, in a district of Rajahmundry, he opened a school for women. In 1876 he created his own journal in Telugu. In 1885, participated in the first meeting of the Indian National Congress .
In 1887 he joined the Brahmo-Samaj organization. Subsequently, he became one of the ardent supporters of his ideas of humanism, the dissemination of education and knowledge. Thanks to Wiresalingam, Brahmo Samaju branches are created in Madras , Bangalore , and a number of other cities in southern India. In 1908 he created the organization "Hitakarini" (Philanthropist).
Creativity
There are 130 books in total. Telugu literature owes to Viresalingam the birth of many artistic genres: novel, domestic and Puranic dramas, farce, biography and autobiography, lyric poem. He established Telugu as a literary language. The writer ridiculed the ridiculous forms of traditional beliefs and caste customs, and deduced in his works caricatured images of brahmin priests. For all his penchant for grotesque exaggeration, the Viresalingam was the first Telugu literature to introduce the realities of modern reality into art, and contribute to an aesthetic understanding of everyday life.
For his works, the writer often used the plots of European authors. So, the basis of his best novels “The Life of Rajashekhar” and “The Journey of Satyaraja” were based on the plot schemes of “The Weckfield Priest” and “ Gulliver's Travels ”.
A significant role in the formation of the genre of social and everyday realistic drama was played by Viresalingam’s play “The Marriage of a Brahmin” - a satire on the practice of marriage bargaining, a common misconduct between a wealthy old brahman and a girl from a poor family.
Among the “poems”, a significant collection is dedicated to love, sex, “Rasikadzhan” (1870).
He is the author of a significant work, The History of Andhar Poets, which was the first work on the history of Andhari literature. He was also the first to compose his own autobiography of the Telugu language.
He is the author of the Telugu “grammar” - “Nitikandrika”.
He translated numerous English and Sanskrit texts into Telugu.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 SNAC - 2010.
Sources
- Veeresalingam Kandukuri (1848-1919) Vepachedu Educational Foundation, Inc