Buddhadeb Bosu

Buddhadeva Bose, Buddhadeb also Bosu ( Bengali: বুদ্ধদেব বসু Buddhadeb Basu, born November 30, 1908 in Comilla, † March 8, 1974 in Kolkata ), was an Indian poet, playwright, novelist, critic, journalist and university teacher. Bose is one of the most important literary figures after Indian independence and remains one of Rabindranath Tagore 's most influential writers of Bengali Language. Due to his numerous publications and diverse mode of action is as Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay it for the great linguistic and stylistic tradition of this region.

Life and work

Bose was the present-day Bangladesh was born on November 30, 1908 in Comilla in the then British India belonging to East Bengal. When the mother died immediately after his birth, tetanus, the father, Bhudev Chandra Bose, a lawyer in Dhaka decided for a life as a wanderer and only returned years later to the civil life back. He left his son to the care of the maternal grandparents.

Bose spent his youth in Comilla, Noakhali and Dhaka in the Ganges delta. After attending school in Dhaka, he studied at the university from 1923 to 1931 English Language and Literature. He closed it with the master from top marks by the year 2007. He also became involved in literary clubs. In 1931, he moved to Kolkata, where he earned first his livelihood by private lessons. 1934-1945 he taught at Ripon College (now Surendranath College ), an undergraduate college of the University of Calcutta and wrote as a journalist for The Statesman, India's oldest English-language magazine and still claims to be the " leading English-language magazine of West Bengal "

As an employee of belletristic magazine Kallol and as editor of the magazines Pragati (Dhaka 1927-1929 ) and Kavita ( " seal ", Kolkata 1935-1961, the first and leading literary magazine of Bengal ) Bose occurred early out of the shadow of Tagore, whom he revered, but from which he wanted to be distinguished: the idealism Tagore he faced a more modern literature, which treated more urban and secular themes, and was oriented west. Bose's bilingual - English and Bengali - as well as his knowledge of European and American literature by Boris Pasternak on Baudelaire to Hölderlin, Pound, Yeats, Eliot, and Henry Miller told him a cosmopolitan range and held him throughout his life of political and ideological determinations far as existed before especially called for occasionally in the 30s and 40s, especially by the writers of the " Progressive writers Association ," the " Anti- Fascit writers " and the " Artist Association ". In contrast, for example, to his senior colleagues Premchand he was convinced of the autonomy of literature so that he could go in to the confession of " l' art pour l' art".

Bose's about 200 books, journals and collections cover an unusually broad spectrum: they range from the various prose forms - letters, diaries, literary criticism, memoirs, novels, children's books and stories - about poetry to translations ( as of works of Baudelaire, Rilke and Kalidasa in Bengali ) and works in English.

In the 1950s, Bose was a guest lecturer in the United States and taught from Pennsylvania College for Women (1953-1954), Indiana University, the Brookly College, Colorado University, Wesleyan College and the University of Hawaii. 1963-1965 taught Bose in Bloomington.

1956-1963 held the founded by himself Department of Comparative Literature at Jadavpur University in Kolkata Bose.

1969 Bose was indicted for the unvarnished depiction of marital infidelity in his novel " Raat Bhore Brishhti " for disseminating indecent writings, but acquitted. The attention to the novel made ​​the novel, however well known and also gave the author a large, though not so desirable, popularity.

From 1937 to 1966 lived in Bose 202 Rashbehari Avenue, Chandannagar / Kolkata, the "House of Literature" ( Kavitabhavan ), a haven for writers, publishers, intellectuals and professors, which eventually itself became a publishing house.

1972 weakened by a vaccine reaction, Bose died on 8 March 1974 in Kolkata at one stroke.

The author was married since 1934 with Pratibha Bose ( 1914/15-2006 ), with whom he had two daughters and a son. She herself was a writer.

Prices

Bose was awarded for his work several times national awards: the 1967 Sahitya Akademi Puraskar of the Indian Academy of Sciences for the play Tapasvi O Tarangini, 1970 Padma Bhushan Award of the Government of India and in 1974 posthumously the Rabindra Award of the State of West Bengal for his poetry Svagata Biday ( 1974).

Criticism

• Although even completely bilingual, Bose assessed the possibility that Indian writers can be expressed linguistically creative in English, pessimistic. For the Indo-English literature that has developed impressively, he had no sense. With the same arguments he had, however, already expressed in 1957 against the imposition of Hindi as the national language of India unit.
• For the separation of Bangladesh from Pakistan in 1971 /72 Bengal Bose had no understanding; especially after the publication of the correspondence with his daughter (1988 /89) was him under the derogatory keyword Bhadralok ( " better people " ) accused of ignoring the national concerns of Bangladeshis and a Hindu in his work generally concerns and literary efforts of the ( to have neglected poorer ) Muslim part of the population ( "icy disregard ... they simply did not count" ). - The reputation of arrogance informs the Bengali literati certainly ahead even within the Hindu society of India.

Works ( selection)

Poetry

• Bandir Bandanaa / Bandir Bandona, 1930
• Kankaavati, 1937
• Draupadir Sharee, 1948
• Shiter Prarthana: Uttar Basanter, 1955
• The Andhaar Alor ADHIk, 1958

Novels

• Laal Megh, 1934
• Tithidore, 1949
• Moner Moto Meye, 1951
• Raatbhare BrishhTi, 1967
• Raataal counter Alaap, 1967
• Golaap Keno Kaalo 1968

Narratives, short stories, collections

• Abhinay, Abhniay Nay, 1930
• Rekhaachitra, 1931
• Bhaaso Amaar Bhelaa, 1963

Plays

• Tapasbee O Tarangini, 1966
• Kolkatar Electra O Satyaasandha, 1968

Essays

• Kaaler Putul, 1946
• Saahityacharchaa, 1954
• Rabindranath: Kathasaitya, 1955
• Shbadesh O Sangskrti, 1957

Travel diaries, memoirs

• Hathaat Alor Jhalkaani, 1935
• Sab Peyechhir Deshe, 1941

Translations

• Kalidaaser Meghadut, 1957, from Sanskrit
• Charles Baudelaire: Taar Kavita, 1960
• Rainer Maria Rilker Kavita, 1970

Non-fiction

• Bhajan Rashik Bangali, 2005 ( Bengali Cooking Recipes, ursprgl. Serialized in the magazine Anandabazar Patrika, 1971)

Article in English

• An Acre of Green Grass: A Review of Modern Bengali Literature, 1948
• Tagore. Portrait of a Poet, 1962

Foreign language editions

• Bose, Buddhadeva [ Basu, Buddhadeba ]: The girl of my heart. Novel, translated and with an afterword and glossary by Hanne - Ruth Thompson; Ullsteinhaus, Berlin 2010 ISBN 978-3-550-08813-1 Original title Monor Moto Meye 1951 / English udT My Kind of Girl

- Four rail travelers tell each night during a involuntary stay in a railway waiting room their experiences with what once meant love for them.