Author: Publisher: Academic Publishers
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Contemporary Bengali Literature
Author: Contemporary Bengali Writing
Author: Khāna Sāraoẏāra MuraśidaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bengali literature
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Papers read at a seminar held in 1987 under the auspices of the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh; includes essays that were presented at seminars held in 1958 in the erstwhile East Pakistan.
Modern Bengali Poetry
Author: Arunava SinhaPublisher:
ISBN: 9781912681228
Category : Bengali poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The seventh-most spoken language in the world, Bengali is home to some of the most distinctive poetry ever written anywhere. Starting with the later poems of Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore, there has been a long and continuous line of modern poetry in the language, its span ranging from lyrical love poems to passionate political verse, from expressions of existential anguish to psychological explorations. This volume celebrates over one hundred years of this poetry from the two Bengals--the eastern Indian state and the country of Bangladesh-- represented by over fifty different poets and a multitude of forms and styles.
My Kind of Girl
Author: Buddhadeva BosePublisher: Random House India
ISBN: 8184002149
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Is the memory of happiness that has passed, sad or happy? Four middle aged men sit together in a railway station, waiting for dawn to break. To pass their time, each tells a story of a woman they loved secretly in their youth... Romantic, elegant, suffused with melancholy, My Kind of Girl is a classic love story from one of Bengal’s great writers.
Chowringhee
Author: ŚaṃkaraPublisher: Penguin Books India
ISBN: 9780143101031
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Set in 1950s Calcutta, this is a saga of the intimate lives of managers, employees and guests at one of Calcutta's largest hotels, the Shahjahan.
Periodicals, Readers and the Making of a Modern Literary Culture: Bengal at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Author: Samarpita MitraPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004427082
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
Periodicals, Readers and the Making of a Modern Literary Culture is a study of literary periodicals and the Bengali public sphere at the turn of the twentieth century, the variety of interests and concerns that animated this domain and how literary relations were seen to constitute new social solidarities.
Acrobat
Author: Nabaneeta Dev SenPublisher: Archipelago
ISBN: 1939810809
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
A deeply humane new collection by a luminary of Bengali literature A radiant collection of poetry about womanhood, intimacy, and the body politic that together evokes the arc of an ordinary life. Nabaneeta Dev Sen's rhythmic lines explore the joys and agonies of first love, childbirth, and decay with a restless, tactile imagination, both picking apart and celebrating the rituals that make us human. When she warns, "know that blood can be easily drawn by lips," her words tune to the fierce and biting depths of language, to the "treachery that lingers on tongue tips." At once compassionate and unsparing, conversational and symphonic, these poems tell of a rope shivering beneath an acrobat's nimble feet or of a twisted, blood-soaked umbilical cord -- they pluck the invisible threads that bind us together.
Pessimism and Contemporary Bengali Literature
Author: Biplab ChakrabortiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
The Vintage Book of Modern Indian Literature
Author: Amit ChaudhuriPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 037571300X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In recent years American readers have been thrilling to the work of such Indian writers as Salman Rushdie and Vikram Seth. Now this extravagant and wonderfully discerning anthology unfurls the full diversity of Indian literature from the 1850s to the present, presenting today’s brightest talents in the company of their distinguished forbearers and likely heirs. The thirty-eight authors collected by novelist Amit Chaudhuri write not only in English but also in Hindi, Bengali, and Urdu. They include Rabindranath Tagore, arguably the first international literary celebrity, chronicling the wistful relationship between a village postal inspector and a servant girl, and Bibhuti Bhushan Banerjee, represented by an excerpt from his classic novel about an impoverished Bengali childhood, Pather Panchali. Here, too, are selections from Nirad C. Chaudhuri’s Autobiography of an Unknown Indian, R. K. Narayan’s The English Teacher, and Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children alongside a high-spirited nonsense tale, a drily funny account of a pre-Partition Muslim girlhood, and a Bombay policier as gripping as anything by Ed McBain. Never before has so much of the subcontinent’s writing been made available in a single volume.
The Unknown Errors of Our Lives
Author: Chitra Banerjee DivakaruniPublisher: Anchor
ISBN: 1400032792
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
In nine poignant stories spiked with humor and intelligence, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni captures lives at crossroad moments–caught between past and present, home and abroad, tradition and fresh experience. A widow in California, recently arrived from India, struggles to adapt to a world in which neighbors are strangers and her domestic skills are deemed superfluous in the award-winning “Mrs. Dutta Writes a Letter.” In “The Intelligence of Wild Things,” a woman from Sacramento visits her brother in Vermont to inform him that back in Calcutta their mother is dying. And in the title story, a painter looks to ancient myth and the example of her grandmother for help in navigating her first real crisis of faith. Knowing, compassionate and expertly rendered, the stories in The Unknown Errors of Our Lives depict the eternal struggle to find a balance between the pull of home and the allure of change.