Magical Reality and Ravi Shankar Ball's Novel Chatushtoy/ জাদুবাস্তবতা ও রবিশংকর বলের উপন্যাস চতুষ্টয়

Abstract

One of the genres of modern fiction is the magical narrative. This genre is most developed by several Latin American authors. As a critic Ravaishankar has also discussed magic realism in the context of Marquez’s writings. We will discuss how magic realism is used in Rabishankar’s fiction. The extent to which Rabishankar’s work is influenced by the ideas of magic realism from Franz Roah to Alegeo Carpenter to Marquez is a matter of concern.

              Hallucinetory scenes and events, one of the elements of magic realism, are clearly used in Ravishankar’s works such as ‘Dozakhnama’, ‘Aynajiban’, ‘Zaro Hour’, ‘Kissa bolen Sheherzade’ etc. Elements of the magical world and hars reality of the world are spontaneously combined in these works. Other elements of magic realism such as ‘heteroglossia’, ‘cross-culturalism’, ‘postcolonialism’ etc, can be noted in Rabishankar’s work. Through all this, he wanted ro break the conventional European style of writing stories. Following the style of kissa, dastan in creating stories, he made the reader a passenger to an endless story.