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Works of Agyeya

Agyeya, which means "unknown," ranks among the most prominent Hindi writers of the twentieth century. Throughout a literary career that spanned five decades, Agyeya published numerous volumes of poetry, fiction, and criticism, and he distinguished himself as one of Hindi culture's especially sophisticated writers. In many of his works, Agyeya championed individualism and sought to merge Indian and Western thought.^[1]

He collected and edited his own 722 poems, written during 1931 to 1981, and published them under the title Sadaneera in two volumes. His poems written during 1981 to 1985 have been published in a volume entitled Aisa Koi Ghar Aapne Daikha Hain.^[2]

Agyeya published 6 collections of short stories, containing total 67 stories. He then published these same short stories in another six volume under different titles, and finally he published his complete short stories under Agyeya Ki Sampurna Kahaniyan. He wrote his first short story, Vipathaga, in 1931 and published the same year. He wrote his last short story, Hajamat Ka Sabun, in January 1959, which he published in 1960 He never written any story after 1959.^[2] His short story tends towards psychology and Intellectualism.^[3]

Poetry

List and translation.^[4]

Short story

Novels

• Shekhar: Ek Jeevani I (1941)
• Shekhar: Ek Jeevani II (1944)
• Shekhar: Ek Jeevni III (Unpublished)
• Nadi ke dweep (1952)
• Apne-apne ajnabi (1961)
• Barahkhambha (co-writer, 1987)
• Chhaya mekhal (Incomplete, 2000)
• Beenu bhagat (Incomplete, 2000)

Essay-Criticism

Play

• Uttar Priyadarshi

Travelogue

• Are Yayavar Rahega Yaad (1953)
• Kirnon ki khoj mein (Selection,1955)
• Ek Boond Sahsa Uchhli (1960)

Reception

Agyeya is considered to be one of the most influential Hindi writers of the 20th-century and is seen as the founder of ādhuniktā (modernism) in Hindi literature.^[5]