Had such universal appeal - a reason which may explain why such a large number of them were translated to other languages. The distinctiveįeatures and the essence of purpose that he added to them made them more attractive and perhaps larger than life. He plucked characters for his stories and novels from his life experience and created them in his own unimitable style. It was his encounters with life as a country youth that provided him with the inspiration, ingredients and storylines for his life-likeĬharacters in the (often) uncomplicated rural family settings. But in no sense did he get his materials from In his carefully crafted, if not freighteningly real,Ĭharacters and events he captured the late nineteenth to early twentieth century Bengali society. Stories and novels often present both in great depth.

Both in the limited materialistic sense and in its psychosomatic dimensions. Poverty Sarat Chandra Chatterjee knew very definitely. See a comprehensive list of Sarat Chandra Chatterjee's Publications. It's true that springs do come to this worldįor some - full of beauty and wealth - with its sweet smelling breeze perfumed with newly bloomed flowers and spiced with cuckoo's song, but such good things remained well outside the sphere I have witnessed endless injustice to these people, unfair intolerable indiscriminate justice. Inspired me to take up their case and plead for them. This world everything they have and yet receive nothing in return, to the weak and oppressed people whose tears nobody bothers to notice and to theĮndlessly hassled, distressed (weighed down by life) and helplesss people whoĭon't even have a moment to think that: despite having everything, they have right to nothing. I'm forever indebted to the deprived, ordinary people who give My literary debt is not limited to my predecessors only. Bengali Greats Series: Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay - the Immortal Wordsmith of Bengal

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