Srikanta
Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay · 1876–1938 · India (Bengal)
Originally Srikanta (Bengali)
Why it matters
A restless wanderer drifts through riverboats, opium dens, and doomed loves across four loosely linked volumes, narrating his own moral education without ever settling down. Sarat Chandra's most autobiographical and most critically esteemed novel.
At a glance
bildungsromanautobiographical fictionromance
Difficulty 5/10medium pace400 pagesA sprawling, episodic structure across four volumes resists any single unifying plot.
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