Shekhar: Ek Jivani

Shekhar: Ek Jivani
Cover page of English translation; 2018 edition
AuthorAgyeya
Original titleशेखर: एक जीवनी
Translator
LanguageHindi
GenrePsychoanalytic novel
Publication date
  • Part 1: 1940
  • Part 2: 1944
Publication placeIndia
Published in English
2018
OCLC19111769

Shekhar: Ek Jivani (pronounced [ʃe.khər: ek jiv.ni]; transl.Shekhar: A Life) is an unfinished Hindi-language novel by Indian writer Sachchidananda Vatsyayan, also known by his pen-name, Agyeya. Published in two parts, with a third part that has yet to see the light of day, Ek Jivani is semi-biographical in nature and is considered to be Agyeya's magnum opus.

Reviewers have remarked on the novel's subtle uses of psychoanalytic themes in its narrative of a variety of experiences. Indeed, it is recognized as being the first Hindi novel to have deployed Freudian approaches to the workings of the mind.