![]() Author: One of the important luminaries of the modern Literature Sunil Gangopadhya was born in 7th September 1934 in the village of Maichpara of Faridpur district, presently in Bangladesh. The most prolific and effervescent writer of the modern Literature, Sunil Gangopadhya was socially conscious. He has a profound experience of the cross currents of the socio-intellectual life of modern Bengal. Endowed with his personal experience, his novels are the magnum opus of a variety of human condition scattered in the different stratum of society. The intricacy and the spiritual aridity of the human mind, which is the sole cause of the social evil is the chief subject he is concerned with. Unlike his predecessors, the principal subject of his works is the individual living in the society rather the abstract society itself. Synopsis: Based on the socio-intellectual arena of post Independence period, Aranyer Dinratri is the tale of four city-bred friends sharing different perspective. ![]() Aranyer Dinratri is a detailed psychological probing of the city bred individuals represented by four friends in their individual response to the drunken spree, social embarrassments, adventures with servants, officials and romance. The sterile psyche of the urban individuals epitomized in the attempt of Hari to make love with Duli, a tribal woman being refused by Atasi. Sanjay is the replica of a modern escapist, who does not dare to respond to Jaya's bold seduction. Rationality is portrayed only through Asim-Aparna episode. Finally the friends again depart for their native destination Kolkata, with a better appreciation of their own psyche. Aranyer Dinratri delineates the confrontation of rationality with impulsive imprudence. The conflict between the rationality and imprudence, sophistication with simplicity makes Aranyer Dinratri as a psychological study of self-exploration. Aranyer Dinratri deals with the sojourn of the four friends in a forest caped tribal land of Palamau. The title truly signifies the subject with which the novel is concerned. The experience and the particular reactions of the different individuals during their days in forest, which ultimately ends in their self-revelation is the key message of Aranyer Dinratri. The title, "Aranyer Dinratri", an analytic one describes the essence of the novel, which is the psychic study of individual in an unfamiliar situation but in a familiar premise. |