![]() ![]() In addition to historical novels, Bankimchandra also wrote novels on social issues and psychological themes. ![]() Based on the Mughal past, Durgeshnandini is reminiscent of Sir Walter Scott's historical novels. ![]() The first of his 14 novels is Durgeshnandini (1865). The first true novelist, however, was bankimchandra chattopadhyay (1838-1894), who is recognized as the 'father of the modern Bangla novel'. Alaler Gharer Dulal, with its interest in character and its portrait of society, has two important ingredients of the novel. Through their plots, incidents, characters, description, dialogue, and language, writers tell stories as well as express their philosophy of life.Įarly Bangla novels include bhabanicharan bandyopadhyay's (1787-1848) satire, Nabababubilash (1825), which may be called the first Bangla novel, bhudev mukhopadhyay's (1824-1898) Safal Svapna and Anguriya Binimay, which have several elements of the historical novel, and alaler gharer dulal (1858), a satire written by peary chand mitra (1814-1883) under the pseudonym of Tekchand Thakur. It is generally agreed that an awareness of the individual and of society is indispensable in a novel. While the term 'novel' generally means an extended work of prose fiction, the Bangla word for novel, upanyas, which derives from the words upanay and upanyasta suggests a greater sense of responsibility on the part of the novelist. Novel as a branch of Bangla literature evolved in the early 19th century under the influence of English literature. ![]()
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