PM Review

  When most people see and talk about the Rashomon Effect in references with finding truth and fixing justice, broadly speaking in depicting how memory plays a seminal role to create and to mix up the fictional and real narratives, I have noticed more the Rashomon Triangle than effect when I have been noticing the framing and compositions of the scenes Akira had created in the Rashomon [1950].   I find the effect a bit universally present in the other forms of human artistic expressions but most probably Kurosawa gave it a justified floor in cinema. After watching the movie, I started reading Akira’s  Something like an autobiography  [1982]  in  the bus on the way to my office in the morning and I was stuck in a passage from the chapter Crybaby that gives a complete explanation of human subjective perspective on which Rashomon based upon.   The details of our life in this era can be found in a novel Uekusa wrote. But Uekusa has his viewpoint an...

  Photo Credit: Palash Mahmud    বুনোহাঁস -পলাশ মাহমুদ   এইতো তুমি নিখোঁজ হলে আমায় রেখে আসবে বলে চলে গেলে।     তোমার জন্য এইতো আমি উদাস হাওয়ায়, অপেক্ষাতে দাঁড়িয়ে থেকে বৃক্ষ হলাম।   কাকে বলবো, বলো?   যে মন বুনোহাঁস হয়ে মেঘের মাঝেতে ডুবে থাকে। তার চোখেতে জলের ধারা তারার তিমির রাখে।   কে জানে, বলো?   কী সহজ! কাছের কিছু হারিয়ে ফেলে ভুলে থাকা।   কী কঠিন! বৃক্ষ হয়ে, অভিমানে দাঁড়িয়ে থাকা।

  When I decided to write a novel set in Mesopotamian campaign during the First World War and India, especially Bengali’s involvement in the great war; and started reading a selection of fiction and non-fictions based on it. But in the course of time, I have come across some readings with a high surprise as I didn’t expect that they will be added on the Mesopotamian reading list. Very recently I have read Bulgarian novelist Georgi Gospodinov’s Time Shelter (2022), winner of the International Booker Prize 2023, I had been expecting a vignette of the great war but when I did truly find the origins of war narrated in the book, I felt a euphoria. And when I have started reading German novelist Jenny Erpenbeck’s The End of Days (2014), which has been nominated for the 2024 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, is also told exquisitely about WWI in Vienna.   I have noticed two seamless things in both novels, firstly, both are set in the out of their home country, Time S...

  While I was reading Kim’s Em [2020], I was finding a sheer similarity between divided Vietnamese and Bengalese and other likely deadly fractured lands and men all over the world as a result of rapturous colonialism in the modern period. Surprisingly, the time period was also, coincidentally, the same from early fifties to late sixties when both Vietnam and united Pakistan were going through the same struggle and sufferings in quest of independence from the chronic oppression. [DESIRES]   “Certainly, bullets kill, but so, perhaps, does desire.” I can’t help but accept it as a truism. Yes! It is our darkest desire that brings all the evil over the world.   [COOLIES]   I didn't read any other literature based on India -China's indentured labor in European and Latin American countries. History refuses to accept the truth about indentured labor but it was indirectly like African slavery.   Tâm, Alexandre, and Mai are examples of Hegelian historical and ...

  Cheon' Whale is one of the finest novels I have read in decades. It will be classics in everywhere everytime. Even readers from the Bronze age would be delighted to have it inscribed on stones to read. At the first few pages, Chunhui’s narrative rose up rapidly like her heavyweight. I have a distaste when the narrative flows like a super cyclone. Readers take a long leap from plot A to B without having a breathing space. But it turns surprisingly into the opposite direction to pull my attention when Cyanide enters with her ‘sweeping’ life and ‘piling’ death and I sails with admirable prose, salacious imagery and narrative styles of Korean Cheon Myeong-Kwan’s Whale [2023]. I haven't read novels for many years, with the narrative style of folk tales where rumors, myths, legends, superstition, prophecy and dissimilarity rule over the characters and the stories. Like the thugs and one-eyed woman, I felt a heavy urge to know where did the old crone hide her fortunes? I felt the ne...

  Guadalupe Nettel's mothers in Still Born are more inclusive and unflinching than Eva Baltasar's mothers in Boulder. I am so much touched by the novel which is dealt with familial relationship  with delicate and  elegant. PART-ONE   I. Not being a mother is not a choice in our society.   II. If any one wishes to do so like other not-to-list then one be answerable.   III. If we want to follow our mind we must prepare our body for that. ( Laura's ovary removal surgery )   IV. Alina's decision to take motherhood as her profession brings an ideological rift with Laura.   V. Alina's conception gives a joy for Laura. We cannot be apart when our beloved has a bliss of life.   VI. The most parts of "violence begets violence" are farmed in the families. Child rearing consumes the most parts of a life in suffering and sacrifice.   VII."There are beings without whom we simply cannot conceive of ourselves in this world." on Alina's pa...

Gospel is the first novel of Maryse Condé I have read ever. And I am blown out from this unequal world but come back to read her rest of the books.  Bulgarian Gospodinov's Time Shelter sends the present times to the past whereas Guadeloupean Maryse's Gospel brings the past times to the present.  Gondé has assembled the brief narrative of the world in this  new kind of novel, as daring and dearing as I have been searching for. Richard Philcox's creative collaboration with Maryse Condé as translator and partner is one of the  finest literary pairs in the history of literature. It will require a hack of time to write a complete review so I have just written my first impression on each chapter of the Gospel. 1. Less The history of love marriage and the culture of their validation are all under the pitch-black doubt. 2. Diversity  The history of homogeneities and the cultures of sapiens are all constructed and a mere evolution in essence. 3.Words It's a word that for...