Humayun Ahmed’s Nandito Noroke : A Quest of Question to the Lives of Men and Women/ হুমায়ূন আহমেদের ‘নন্দিত নরকে’ : নর-নারীর জীবন জিজ্ঞাসার স্বরূপ অন্বেষণ

Abstract

Humayun Ahmed (1948-2012) is one of the greatest Bengali fiction writer in the era of 20^th century. Not only fiction writer but also he is known as Bangladeshi filmmaker, composer and playwright, songwriter, scholar and academic. Humayun Ahmed made his debut on fiction era by appearing the famous novel- Nandito Noroke (1972). He picked up the Bangladeshi civil middleclass society on his plot of this novel. This article will emphacise on how his colossal writing makes reader understand the circumstance through the age. He imitates the life of men and women in the civil society in his point of view. The major concern of this article is to give importance to bring out the quest of life of men and women in his novel named Nandito Noroke. After liberation war (1971) we found him as a powerful fiction writer who potrayed the pulse of middle-class family based on the real scenario of hope, desire, expections. Humayun Ahmed’s novel especially early aged writings are very lively, dynamic and meaningful. His conscious depiction of thought gives the fiction a new era. This writing will provide a clear concept about the nature of character’s quest of questions and their expectation and reality. The complexity of life is described wonderfully through his protagonist of the novel. The point of view of indivisual mind, soliloquy and psychoanalysis took an important place in characterisation. So, stylistics will also be a part of this article. This paper has been designed through the lens of literary and cultural approach including critical analysis.