An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth
- Lingua:
- inglese
- Stato:
- Opera completa
- Autorialità:
- Scritta dall'autore
- Stato del testo:
- Testo pulito
- Estensione:
- ~180.000 parole · 848 passi
Cita quest'opera
- APAMahatma Gandhi. (n.d.). An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/it/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/it/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/it/works/mahatma-gandhi/an-autobiography-the-story-of-my-experiments-with-truth.
Di che cosa tratta
Il racconto che Gandhi fece della propria vita fino agli anni Venti: l'infanzia, gli studi a Londra, gli anni sudafricani e la formazione di ciò che avrebbe poi chiamato satyagraha.
Contesto e storia
Lo scrisse in gujarati e uscì a puntate su un suo settimanale fra il 1925 e il 1929; l'inglese è una traduzione del suo segretario Mahadev Desai, riveduta da lui stesso. Il titolo non è modestia: Gandhi insiste che non sta scrivendo un'autobiografia ma la storia di alcuni esperimenti, e che ciò che riferisce sono suoi tentativi, non ricette. Il racconto si ferma prima degli episodi che lo resero famoso ovunque, e questo sorprende chi vi arriva cercandoli.
Contesto editoriale, non una fonte citabile: a differenza dei passi dell'opera, questi dati non si possono verificare sul corpus.
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 .…