Tasveer ( The Portrait)
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TextPublication details: Gargi Prakashan 2012Description: 122pISBN: 81-87772-24-7Subject(s): Fiction | Hindi Literature | Novel | Russian Literature-TranslatedDDC classification: 891.433 Summary: "The Portrait" is the story of a young and penniless artist, Andrey Petrovich Chartkov, who stumbles upon a terrifyingly lifelike portrait in an art shop and is compelled to buy it. The painting is magical and offers him a dilemma — to struggle to make his own way in the world on the basis of his own talents or to accept the assistance of the magic painting to guaranteed riches and fame. He chooses to become rich and famous, but when he comes upon a portrait from another artist which is "pure, faultless, beautiful as a bride" [1] he comes to realize that he has made the wrong choice. Eventually, he falls ill and dies from a fever.
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"The Portrait" is the story of a young and penniless artist, Andrey Petrovich Chartkov, who stumbles upon a terrifyingly lifelike portrait in an art shop and is compelled to buy it. The painting is magical and offers him a dilemma — to struggle to make his own way in the world on the basis of his own talents or to accept the assistance of the magic painting to guaranteed riches and fame. He chooses to become rich and famous, but when he comes upon a portrait from another artist which is "pure, faultless, beautiful as a bride" [1] he comes to realize that he has made the wrong choice. Eventually, he falls ill and dies from a fever.
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