Scholarly Chronicle

 Book Review; Tapas Sarkar, PhD English; Three Stories: Jibanananda Das is a collection of three translated short stories from Bengali poet, novelist, essayist, and author Jibanananda Das, by Chandak Chattarji. These three translated short stories are “Shadow play” which is translated from Das’s “Chhaya Nat”, “Tale of City and Village” from “Gram o Shohorer Golpo”, and “Bilash” from the same Bengali title “Bilash”. Jibanananda Das is mostly acquainted as a modern Bengali poet just after the name Tagore. Das’s remarkable poetry collections are Jhara Palak (1928), Dhushor Pandulipi (1936), Shreshtha Kobita (1954), and others. It was Clinton B. Seely who translated most of Das’s poems and wrote his biographical text “A Poet Apart: A Literary Biography of the Bengali Poet Jibanananda Das (1899-1954)”. With Seely’s contribution, Das is recognized as a poet worldwide. Now, many of Das’s poems are translated into English. But, as a prose writer Das’s identity is still concealed, esp...