Jibananda Das: Short Fiction

Jibanananda Das was perhaps the most important Bengali poet after Tagore. However the discovery of his unpublished manuscripts and their posthumous publication from the 1980s has gradually introduced a corpus of some eighty short stories and five novels that far exceeds in volume the original poetic canon and has opened a new window on the literary career of Jibananda. This volume offers the first ever translation of Jibananandas early short stories written between 1931-1933 but published only from the 1980s. Selected from the twelve volumes of Jibanananda Shamagra published so far teh stories are a representative sample of Jibanandanda distinctive and compelling style and f his insistent concern with time memory loss death marital discord and unemployment.