Description
Published in 2019
Published by Joyce and Company Publishing Society
Nilotpal Roy, the author of this book, writes in 2 languages ― English and Bengali. He amusingly says that he writes in English with his left hand, and when he writes in Bengali, he uses his right hand. It means that his flair for writing in Bengali is far more cerebral than in his English writings. This one is such a cerebral book of him written in Bengali with his right hand. It contains 10 essays, 2 speeches, and an imaginary letter ― all non-fiction ― written during a period of almost 5 years ― since December 2013 till October 2018. When you read this book, you can understand that these 13 pieces of writing are “of what level”, so that it takes 5 years to write. And when you read the back-blurb of this book, that tells you about the author, you can realize “why it takes 5 years” to write just 13 pieces of non-fiction. Moreover, as a bonus, readers are also having the ‘Introduction’ of the book written by the author himself. In addition, the ‘Cover’, the ‘Dedication Page’, and the statement in the ‘Quotation Page’ indicating the central spirit of the book, overtly help the readers to understand the wit of the writer, as well as the mood of the book. And his own creative concept of the front cover page, where every letter of the author’s name appears as “burnt match-sticks”, which, as if, have become physically distorted by the pain of being burnt, and thus, have turned into different letters of the Bengali alphabet. It symbolically indicates the existential angst and crisis of the creative entity of the writer. In all his books, whether English or Bengali, the name of the author appears in this very same manner, which has become his own exclusive water-mark, his individual thumb-sign.
