SAHITYA PRATIBHA

""ANOTHER COMPILATION BY THE DISTINGUISHED WRITER V.S. KHANDEKAR. IT IS BASICALLY, PERSON-ORIENTED. THE AUTHOR HAS PORTRAYED MANY OF THE WRITERS, DRAMATISTS, POETS, STORY-WRITERS AND SO ON. SOME ARE FROM THE PAST WHILE SOME HAVE BEEN ACTIVE IN HIS TIME. NOWHERE HAS HE UNDER- OR OVER-ESTIMATED ANY OF THEM. RATHER, HE INTRODUCES THEM WITH AN UNCOMMON NEUTRALITY WHICH IS RATHER HARD TO EMBRACE. HE THROWS LIGHT ON THE STYLE, INTELLECT AND INNOVATIVENESS. HE ALSO DOES NOT HESITATE TO POINT OUT THEIR FAULTS. HE MAKES US AWARE OF THEIR PERSONAL CONTRIBUTION IN THE FIELD OF LITERATURE. THIS MAKES HIS WRITING UNIQUE. AN INTELLIGENT AND HONEST CRITIC THAT KHANDEKAR IS, OFFERS AN ELABORATIVE TOUCH TO HIS WRITING MAKE IT IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE IT. THOSE WHO REALLY WANT TO DWELL IN A TRUE CRITICAL FORM, SHOULD FIND HIS WRITINGS A MASTER-PIECE. "" 'साहित्यप्रतिभा-सामर्थ्य आणि मर्यादा' हा वि.स.खांडेकरांचा व्यक्तिकेंद्रित; परंतु साहित्याच्या अंगाने लिहिलेला समीक्षात्मक लेखसंग्रह होय. यात खांडेकरांनी आपल्या पूर्व व समकालीन नाटककार, कवी, कथाकार असलेल्या सुहृद साहित्यिकांच्या वाङ्मय व व्यक्तिविचारांची प्रज्ञा व प्रतिभा अशा दुहेरी अंगाने स्वागतशीलपणे परंतु नीरक्षीर न्यायविवेकी समीक्षा केली आहे. समकालीनांविषयीची आस्था व्यक्त करणारे हे लेखन सुहृदांचे व्यक्तिगत व वाङ्मयीन योगदान अधोरेखित करते, ते गुण-दोषांसकट! म्हणून प्रज्ञावंत साहित्यिकांची प्रतिभा मूल्यांकित करण्याचा वस्तुपाठ समजून या टीकालेखनाकडे पाहिले जाते. स्वागतशील, आस्वादक समीक्षा लेखनाचा आदर्श ज्यांना अनुसरायचा असेल, त्यांना 'प्रतिमा आणि प्रतिभा' प्रतिदर्श ठरावा.