An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- Status:
- Vollständiges Werk
- Autorschaft:
- Vom Autor verfasst
- Zustand des Textes:
- Sauberer Text
- Umfang:
- ~180.000 Wörter · 848 Passagen
Dieses Werk zitieren
- APAMahatma Gandhi. (n.d.). An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/de/works/mahatma-gandhi/an-autobiography-the-story-of-my-experiments-with-truth
- MLAMahatma Gandhi. "An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/de/works/mahatma-gandhi/an-autobiography-the-story-of-my-experiments-with-truth.
- ChicagoMahatma Gandhi. An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/de/works/mahatma-gandhi/an-autobiography-the-story-of-my-experiments-with-truth.
Wovon es handelt
Gandhis Bericht über sein Leben bis in die zwanziger Jahre: Kindheit, Studium in London, die südafrikanischen Jahre und die Ausbildung dessen, was er später Satyagraha nennen sollte.
Kontext und Geschichte
Er schrieb ihn auf Gujarati; er erschien zwischen 1925 und 1929 in Fortsetzungen in seiner eigenen Wochenschrift. Das Englische ist eine Übersetzung seines Sekretärs Mahadev Desai, von Gandhi selbst durchgesehen. Der Titel ist keine Bescheidenheit: Er betont, keine Selbstbiographie zu schreiben, sondern die Geschichte von Versuchen, und was er berichte, seien eigene Versuche, keine Rezepte. Die Erzählung bricht vor jenen Ereignissen ab, die ihn weltberühmt machten — was Leser überrascht, die genau danach suchen.
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The first edition of Gandhiji’s Autobiography was published in two volumes, Vol. I in 1927 and Vol. II in 1929. The original in Gujarati which was priced at Re. 1/- has run through five editions,. nearly 50,000 copies have been sold. The price of the English translation (only issued in library edition) was prohibitive for the Indian reader, and a cheap edition has long been needed. It is now being issued in one volume. The translation, as it appeared serially in Young India, had, it may be noted, the benefit of, Gandhiji’s revision. It has now undergone careful revision, and from the point of ‘View of language, it has had the benefit of careful revision by a revered friend, who, among many other things, has the reputation of being an eminent English scholar. Before undertaking the task, he made it a condition that his name should on no account be given out. I accept the condition. It is needless to say it heightens my sense of gratitude to him. Chapters XXIX — XLIII of Part V were translated by my friend and colleague Pyarelal during my absence in Bardoli at the time of the Bardoli Agrarian Inquiry by the Broomfield Committee 1940 MAHADEV DESAI iii Chapter CONTENTS TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE (Mahadev Desai) INTRODUCTION PART I BIRTH AND PARENTAGE > > CHILDHOOD . . . s CHILD MARRIAGE . . k PLAYING THE HUSBAND . . 5 AT THE HIGH SCHOOL A TRAGEDY : A TRAGEDY (Contd.) . STEALING AND ATONEMENT MY FATHER’S DEATH AND MY DOUBLE SHAME 5 PREPARATION FOR ENGLAND OUTCASTE . . ` IN LONDON AT LAST MY CHOICE CHANGES EXPERIMENTS IN DIETETICS SHYNESS MY SHIELD ACQUAINTANCE WITH RELIGIONS fass qs Ua NARAYAN HEMCHANDRA THE GREAT EXHIBITION ‘CALLED ’— BUT THEN ? MY HELPLESSNESS PART IL RAYCHANDBHAI HOW I BEGAN LIFE . THE FIRST SHOCK i PREPARING FOR SOUTH AFRICA . ARRIVAL IN NATAL . y Page iii xiii oan vi SOME EXPERIENCES . ON THE WAY TO PRETORIA MORE HARDSHIPS CHRISTIAN CONTACTS . SEEKING TOUCH WITH INDIANS .…