BUDDHADEVA BOSE (1908-1974) remains to this very day the most misunderstood author of modern Bengal. He was one for whom prolificity he published over one hundred works was the vital sign of creativity. In this he is perhaps our most uniquely versatile author after Tagore.
From the very beginning of his literary career he succeeded in achieving a notoriety and became a permanently 'asocial" object of persecution. Still his works amply show the combination of originality and inexhaustible elan he possessed, and also the presence of a creative power we respect and remember him by. There is not a single literary genre that he did not try his hand atpoetry and fiction, personal essay and literary criticism, symbolist play and entertaining verse and tales for a juvenile audience.
Buddhadeva built up his own reputation during his life-time. He did not have to wait for it like Jivanananda Das. This reputation has not suffered after his death. On the contrary, he is honoured today, among the practising writers and uninitiated readers alike.
Dr Alokeranjan Dasgupta, who had the privilege of working with Buddhadeva Bose in the Comparative Literature Department of Jadavpur University and himself a poet, has analysed and appreciated Buddhadeva very competently in this small, but very elegantly written monograph.
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