Devdas by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
A privileged, indecisive young man is torn between his childhood love, Paro, and the suffocating expectations of family and class; when he hesitates to defy convention, she is married off to another. Consumed by remorse, he descends into alcoholism and finds unexpected compassion from Chandramukhi, a courtesan who offers him a path to redemption he cannot accept. It is a haunting portrait of pride, social tyranny, and the slow ruin of a man who lets love slip away, culminating in a tragic, lonely end at the threshold of the life he might have had.
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- Published
- 1917
- Nationality
- Indian
- Length
- Very Short
- Pages
- 120-160
- Original Language
- Bengali
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- Alternate Titles
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- Debdas
- Debdās
- দেবদাস
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