নারায়ণ গঙ্গোপাধ্যায়ের গল্প ভুবন: প্রতিবাদ ও নির্বাসিতের প্রতিবেদন - Atmadeep

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বাংলা ভাষায় প্রকাশিত আন্তর্জাতিক দ্বিমাসিক গবেষণামূলক পত্রিকা
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Volume-I, Issue-I, September, 2024
Volume-I, Issue-I, September, 2024
নারায়ণ গঙ্গোপাধ্যায়ের গল্প ভুবন: প্রতিবাদ ও নির্বাসিতের প্রতিবেদন
অমিত দেব, গবেষক, বাংলা বিভাগ, আসাম বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়, শিলচর, ভারত
Received: 07.09.2024
Accepted: 29.09.2024
Published Online: 30.09.2024
Page No: 94-100
DOI: 10.69655/atmadeep.vol.1.issue.01W.013
ABSTRACT
In the history of Bengali short stories, Narayan Gangopadhyay is a well-known name today. He is a distinctive artist of Bengali fiction. After the literary phase centered around magazines like Kallol and Kalikalam, he was among the few emerging storytellers who gradually enriched Bengali short stories. During and after World War II, powerful writers like Subodh Ghosh, Santosh Kumar Ghosh, Nabendu Ghosh, Narendra Nath Mitra, and Narayan Gangopadhyay wrote stories that reflected the struggles of real life and the perceptions of truth, which became vividly apparent through their narratives.
Narayan Gangopadhyay is a key figure in the transformation of Bengali stories. From war and famine to independence, partition, communalism, and the refugee crisis, he claimed innovation in the remarkable structure and extraordinary language of contemporary storytelling. His works include nearly 14 collections of short stories. The entire decade of the 1940s left deep scars on the map of Bengal and India. The August Movement, the Quit India Movement, Japanese bombings, black markets, control, famine, anti-fascist movements, student-worker strikes, communal riots, fragmented independence, partition, and the refugee influx highlighted the social and political context of that decade.
Poets and writers experienced the terrifying reality of famine first-hand. They felt the unavoidable presence of death and destruction. In the context of war, the shattered lives depicted lacked the romanticism of Sharatchandra, the bohemianism of Kallol, and the nature fascination of Bibhutibhushan. It was in this changed backdrop that Narendra Nath Mitra, Samresh Basu, Narayan Gangopadhyay, Ramapad Chowdhury, and Bimal Kar emerged, among others. A confluence of thought occurred among all of them. In Narayan Gangopadhyay's short stories, the reality of that time vividly emerges. In our discussion, we will attempt to highlight various socio-economic themes from the 1940s that appear in his stories.
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