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in the novel. Rather the incidents of Tishna's early life are the main focus of the novel. The novelist has tried to portray the like-sketch of Tishna and the influence of the episode of her
Chhotofufu (younger aunt) and Chotochacha (younger uncle) on her life. The other characters like Alim and Karim also play importance roles in the plot of the novel. On the eve of her youth Tishna not only sympathised Kamil, rather she loved him: the proof of it is present in the end of the novel. We now understand that Tishna loved Kamil but the social prejudices prevented her to reach her love. Though Tishna is presented as the main character, her exposition comes through narration, rather than action – she rarely participates in them; rather she only watches. As a result, she fails to create any permanent impression on the reader's mind. On the other hand, Chhotofufu, Tishna's distant aunt Mayna, spans less in the novel but touches more deeply. The character of Kamil is also no better creation.
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novelist himself experienced in his own life. He himself also went through an adolescent love affair with a girl whose name is not even exposed in the swan song. The marriage of the girl imprinted a great shock on his mind and resultantly he gave up any sort of writing. Though the novelist has confessed that if this girl would not appear in his life, he would never be able to be a writer. Once upon a time he had relation with two girls, which is also a common subject in his novels. The shadows of this girl or their marriage are not very faint in Karim's novels also. The shifting of Karim's family to Dhaka from
Kolkata is another significant autobiographical element that has taken a large space in his novels.
327:, the Muslim mind of the then Kolkata has been exposed. The Pakistan movement, which was nourished wholeheartedly by all Muslim people for their identity, takes an upper hand in the novel. Shaker is the embodiment of all characteristics available in the Muslim society – not even the political and cultural attitude go beyond. He supports the Muslim League and is a great fan of Muhammad Ali Jinnah and eventually relinquishes a sort of detest against Mahatma Gandhi and other Hindu leaders, though he is in the belief that Pakistan would be a country irrespective of Hindus and Muslims. Possibly, for that very reason, the narrator ‘I’ of the novel speaks about himself at the outset:
379:. This is the most successful novel of him, or of the contemporary Bengali novels, for its meticulous psychoanalytic element. The novelist has placed the outer behaviour and the subconscious thoughts juxtapositionally are a well proportionate way. Karim's expression in this regard is more spontaneous in Prem Ekti Lal Golap. Commenting on this novel Zillur Rahman Siddiqui, an eminent poet and critic of the country said:
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who is the narrator of the novel herself. The whole novel is related in the first person narrative as her personal accounts. Like his first novel, this second one of Karim lacks the perfection to be a true picture of the then society. A very thin thread of the
Kolkata's Muslim society may be observed
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The plot of this novel spans from the partition of 1947 to 26 March 1971. The story is narrated, appropriate to say ‘told’, by Erphan
Chowdhury. The other characters inserted are Ayesha, Ayesha's husband Samad Saheb, Abid, Kohinur, Akkas, Nabi and others. We observe intermingle of Erphan's personal
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Karim began writing during the
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Karim completed his BA from
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In general, it is profound that autobiographical elements are present in Karim's novels, since his novels sketch the middle-class people and their socio-political environment, which is his own. If we look into his swan song Jibon Moron we will find the presence of some similar incidents that the
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The novels of Karim have that capacity to give his readers a sort of cathartic feeling – and everyone will agree with the point that before his novels we did not meet such modern individuals in
Bengali fiction. He is the pioneer Bengali novelist to expose the modern man – the flexibility and
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experience in the socio-political milieu of the novel. In this novel, unlike the earlier two, Karim has been successful in the juxtaposition of psychoanalysis and external society. The successful use of stream of conscious in the frame of socio-political arena is really praiseworthy in
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Award. His fame peaked with the publication of his epic novel Amar Jato Glani in 1973, and he continued to write and publish regularly thereafter. Karim battled paralysis for nineteen years and died in Dhaka on 26 November 2011.
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fickleness that every modern human being goes across regarding his love, sex and everything. No other contemporary
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