Author: Sunil Gangopadhyay
Translator(s)/ Editors(s): Enakshi Chatterjee
Publisher: Sahitya Akademi
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 427
ISBN/UPC (if available): 9788126023547
Description
This book presents Selections from the Bengali writings of Sunil Gangopadhyay, edited by Enakshi Chatterjee. In a matter of 60 years, the term 'reader', normally associated with classrooms, has begun to mean also a selection of a writer in a single volume.It Explains how and why Sunil Gangopadhyay is one of the nation's leading creative minds.
Sunil Gangopadhyay – A Reader (b. 1934), prolific poet, journalist, novelist, script writer and dramalist, spearheaded a new literary movement in Bengal after Independence, along with his contemporaries Shakti Chattopadhyay and Nirendranath Chakrovarty. Although Sunil Gangopadhyay is known more for his fiction, it is poetry which is his ‘‘first love’’.
Born in Faridpur, now in Bangladesh, his family had to leave home after the Partition. Gangopadhyay started writing while still in his teens and tried his hand at various jobs to make ends meet.
Contents
Introduction
Poems
Section
1. City of Memories 3
2. City of Memories 5
3. City of Memories 9
4. City of Memories 14
5. City of Memories 15
6. City of Memories 17
7. City of Memories 18
8. City of Memories 27
9. I Alone am Gayatri
10. I Turned up Late
Section II
11. A Journey through love and sorrow
12. The Onword Journey
13. A Prelude to Poem for Neera
14. Neera
15. Till the last moment
16. The dimly –lit lawns of the fort
17. For poetry alone
18. Inheritance
19. The memory of Che Guevara
20. The wrong hour
21. Just the other day
22. Shadows
23. Once upon a time
Section III
24. Sound
25. Neera’s Illness
26. At the bungalow in Kalyaneswari
27. Mortal
28. Close to Neera
29. City of Memories 1
30. City of Memories 4
31. City of Memories 10
32. City of Memories 12
33. City of Memories 13
34. City of Memories 21
35. City of Memories 25
36. Body love
37. The unique fluency
38. Beside the beautiful
39. False promises
40. Art critic
41. A Historic portrait
42. Beside love
43. Standing upon the map of India
Features
44. Border
45. Darkness in the Cinema
46. I felt extremely hurt
47. Why do I write
Short Stories
48. The fugitive and his pursuers
49. A cup of tea at the Taj Mahal
50. Beside the river
51. Our Monoroma
Novella
52. Pratidwandi
Novels
53. Sei Samay (Excerpts)
54. Purba – Paschim (Volume 1) (Excerpts)
55. Purba – Paschim (Volume 2) (Excerpts)
Literary Ctiricism
56. Three stalwarts of Bengali short story
57. Jagadishchandra Gupta
58. Satinath Bhaduri
59. Kamalkumar Mazumdar
Autobiography
60. Ardhek Jibon (Excerpts)