Jibanananda Das (Livres)

Jibanananda Das Livres

Jibanananda Das s'impose comme peut-être le poète bengali le plus populaire, reconnu comme un précurseur clé du modernisme dans la littérature bengalie. Bien que sa diction poétique inhabituelle, ses choix de mots et ses préférences thématiques aient d'abord mis du temps à résonner, son œuvre a finalement conquis le cœur des lecteurs. Vers la seconde moitié du XXe siècle, la poésie de Das était devenue l'essence même du modernisme dans la poésie bengalie.

Malloban

240pages
9 heures de lecture

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Malloban is set in North Calcutta in the winter of 1929. The eponymous protagonist, a lower-middle-class office worker, lives in College Street-a locality known for its bookstores, publishing houses, and universities-with his wife Utpala and their daughter Monu. The novel unfolds through a series of everyday scenes of dysfunction and discontent: bickering about bathrooms and budgeting, family trips to the zoo and the movies, a visit from Utpala's brother's family which displaces Malloban to a boarding house, and the appearance of a frequent late-night visitor to Utpala's upstairs bedroom. Meanwhile, the daughter Monu bears the brunt of her parents' "unlove." Arguably the most beloved poet in modern Bangla after Tagore, Jibanananda wrote a significant number of novels and short stories discovered and published after his death. Malloban is his most popular novel.