Selected Short stories of Shyamal Gangopadhyay : Life and Reality/ শ্যামল গঙ্গোপাধ্যায়ের নির্বাচিত ছোটগল্প : জীবন ও বাস্তবতা

Abstract

The socially conscious fiction writer of the seventies, Shyamal Gangopadhyay, has given space to the reality of the helplessness that second World War brought to people's lives. Important issues such as the crisis of the post-war period, doubts, the hard struggle caused by partition, economic hardship, the crisis of values of the middle class, etc. have emerged in his literature. Shyamal Gangopadhyay has seen people, understood the world and he discovered himself in various ways. Just as he wanted life and the world, people and nature appeared to him with diverse resources which he developed his own perspective. The pain, regret, mental inclinations, and complications of modern life were not avoided in his stories. This article has tried to discuss the way in which life narratives or life thoughts have emerged in his works by adopting the events of a few selected stories. The characters in the story seem to be alive in the author's own characteristics. The life story has been revealed through this. Some selected stories are like 'Sakshi Dumur Gacha', ‘Urbarashakti', 'Dakhal', 'Pari', 'Nishithe Sukumar', 'Adbhut Baganer Chashi' etc. In the story 'Sakshi Dumur Gacha', we see how inhumane the behavior of sons towards helpless parents is in modern society. Shyamal Gangopadhyay talks about the terrible inhumanity and degradation in the story 'Sakshi Dumur Gacha'. In the story 'Urbarashakti', the story of a middle-class helpless man is told among the characters of welfare. Along with this, the reproduction of cats from the fox or tiger group and the birth of the grandson of one of the narrators from the monkey group bind animals and humans in a thread. In the story 'Dakhal', he has left the huge population of city life and chosen that part of the town where the wind of modernity has just blown. Shyamal Gangopadhyay has highlighted this changing human and non-human world in the story 'Dakhal'. The context of the story 'Pari’ is the belief tendency of people. The belief that things match. The belief that Bipin Biswas brings down fairies. And the story revolves around the belief in bringing down fairies. The story is presented in the description of some small incidents. In this way, Shyamal Gangopadhyay has highlighted the life story in his various stories and has highlighted the existence, humiliation, and crisis of man in the weaving of the story, and this will be an attempt to reveal this in the article under discussion.