The lifestyle and lifewar placed over the border; selected Bengali novels and short stories specially focused on partition/ সীমান্তের উর্ধ্বে জীবনাদর্শ ও জীবনযুদ্ধ : প্রসঙ্গ দেশভাগ কেন্দ্রিক নির্বাচিত বাংলা কথাসাহিত্য

Abstract

Before the 20th century, Bengali society was predominantly village-based. Their slow life journey was suddenly brought to a high tide by a revolutionary event like the partition of the country.  Apart from the fulfillment of our dream of independence, this is only one event which is the complete history – geography – literature of India. Along with the culture, the traditional sense of the people - belief-habits-glory, culture-society-ideals, etc., were not only influenced but also changed in a great way.  Partition faced several crises in our society; Among these, the main crisis was the breakdown of the monogamous family and the disruption of social philosophies and lifestyles.  Partition was largely due to violent and deeply shameful political dissensions, from which the northern generation in society has not recovered to this day. Since the artistic expression of the varied experiences of human life is the main source of literary creation, so brutal events like the partition of the country, the intense agony of bloodshed, have very naturally influenced our literature. As a result of the partition of the country, all the problems such as bi-ethnicity, refugee problem, enclave problem etc. became more acute in the Bengali society. But people create the beauty of literature in the urge of a priceless pleasure. Revolution of turbulent forties, war, famine, pandemic, independence, country partition, refugee crisis, nothing could destroy this beauty of literature. In the novelty of the content, in the structure and description of the story, in the variety of the background, in the uniqueness of the language or idiom, above all in the description of the country-time-society and the life of the common people, the partition and in describing the excruciating pain of emigration, the despicable history of humanity's grief and the scars of adversity, the literature of Deshbhag has become a timeless and contemporary history.