Bangla sahitya prakritibadi Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay/ বাংলা সাহিত্যের প্রকৃতিবাদী : বিভূতিভূষণ বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়

Abstract

Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay had arrived in Bengali literature with his artistic quality to make simple story extraordinary and it enchanted the reader. He did not say the story to readers rather the showed the story. So the readers are so much enchanted with the mode of his description of story that the can see the image of the story in the mirror of his mind. In the Bengali literature very few writers has given the variety of human characters, Bibhutibhushan is the exception.

          Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay had his immense love towards nature. So, he had travelled many places surrounded with mountains and jungles in his last 6-7 years of life. He had wrote his experience of his traveling life in his letters to his wife. He had mentioned in his writings many unknown river, dam and fountains. He had described in his writings about small rivers, distance of jungles, classification of trees, many forms of nature not only that he also had described the fear of wild animals, the history of unknown kings and the cultural environment in a great extent. The reason of the effect of nature in the writings of Bibhutibhushan was his childhood and the time of his growing up. In every writing of Bibhutibhushan,the impact of nature is clearing visible. Bengali readers have recognised in new way about 'Boichir jhap', 'Bhata ful', the village path etc. He was overwhelmed by the beauty of nature of the village path when he was living there. His attraction towards nature of the village are expressed in his writings. It will not be wrong to say that he is the child of nature. Every forms and fragrance of his writings are taken from the nature and the lives of human being surrounded by the nature.

          Bibhutibhushan as an artist is a great lover. In his total literature nature is not only created as nature but also it become a part of human life. The story of family centric Bengali lives are expressed in a lucid mannar in his novels. A renowned critique had said, "There is a mysterious path joy in the writings of Bibhutibhushan. This way is going towards the heaven from the earth. Bibhutibhushan is an exceptional poet with his wide as well as deep fillings towards human lives. He is a great artist who interlinked joy and sorrows and the insignificant stories of men and women with the nature "1(Bibhutibhushan" Man Silpo, Gopikanath Roychowdhury).

          Bibhutibhushan, this feelings towards nature is not happened in one day, it is the result of his lifelong worship towards nature. The young Bibhutibhushan always avoid the presence of human being to become United with the nature. In fact Bibhutibhushan relation with the nature is like the relation with his soul.