Aranyer Din Ratri (novel)
| Author | Sunil Gangopadhyay |
|---|---|
| Language | Bengali |
| Publication place | India |
Aranyer Din Ratri (lit. 'Days and nights in the forest') is a novel by the Bengali author Sunil Gangopadhyay.[1][2] It was his second published novel. The plot follows four unemployed youths who, disillusioned with city life, retreat to a forest for a week—only to confront the very realities they sought to leave behind.
In popular culture
- In 1970, Aranyer Din Ratri was adapted into a film of the same name by Satyajit Ray, starring Soumitra Chatterjee, Rabi Gosh, Sharmila Tagore, among others.[3][4]
- The novel is mentioned in Neel Mukherjee's The Lives of Others (2014) as one of its Bengali literary references.[5]
References
- ^ Dasgupta, Alokeranjan (1969). "Bengali: The Rewardless Year". Indian Literature. 12 (4): 34–38. ISSN 0019-5804.
- ^ চক্রবর্তী, গৌতম. "জনজাতির মানুষের সঙ্গে মানসিক দূরত্বই আমাদের ঐতিহ্য" (in Bengali). Archived from the original on 2024-09-12. Retrieved 2025-04-19.
- ^ Sanyal, Devapriya (2021). Gendered Modernity and Indian Cinema: the Women in Satyajit Ray's Films. Routledge contemporary South Asia series. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-000-50919-9.
- ^ "Sunil Gangopadhyay's novel 'Aranyer Dinratri' will be again adapted into a Bengali film after Satyajit Ray created magic 50 yrs ago". The Economic Times. 2022-09-10. ISSN 0013-0389. Retrieved 2025-04-19.
- ^ Mukherjee, Ankhi (2016). "The Great Bengali Novel in English". Contemporary Literature. 57 (3): 462–470. doi:10.3368/cl.57.3.462. ISSN 0010-7484.