স্মৃতি সত্ত্বা ভবিষ্যৎ

by Bishnu Dey

Winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award (India), 1965

120 pages, Hardcover

About the author

Bishnu Dey was a prominent Bengali poet, prose writer, translator, academic and art critic in the era of modernism, post-modernism. Starting off as a symbologist, he won recognition for the musical quality of his poems, and forms the post-Tagore generation of Bengali poets, like Buddhadeb Basu and Samar Sen, which marked the advent of "New Poetry" in Bengali literature, deeply influenced by Marxist ideology. He even published a poetry magazine for while wherein he encouraged socially conscious writing. His own work reveals a poet's solitary struggle, quest for human dignity, amidst a crisis of uprooted identity. Through his literary career, he taught English literature at various Calcutta colleges, Ripon College, Presidency College (1944–1947), Maulana Azad College (1947–1969) and Krishnanagar College. In the 1920s & 1930s, he was also remained a member of a young group of poets, centered on the Kallol (Commotion) magazine.

His most important work, poetry collection, Smriti Satta Bhabishyat (Memory, being, the Future) (1955–61), set a new precedent in Bengali poetry. It later won him the 1965 Sahitya Akademi Award in Bengali as well as the highest literary award of India, Jnanpith Award, in 1971

Reviews

[Sayantan · Rating 5 out of 5]

এক বড় আধুনিক কবির কাছ থেকে একগুচ্ছ সুন্দর-ক্ষনিক জটিল-আধুনিক কবিতা। ত্রিশের দশকের আধুনিক কবিদের কাজ আরো পড়তে হবে। আশা করি এনাদের কাজ সমগ্র আকারে পাওয়া যায়। শুরুর জন্য হুমায়ুন আজাদের "আধুনিক বাংলা কবিতা" বইটাও দুর্ধর্ষ ছিলো।