The greatest Bangla poet since Tagore, yes, but also the most beguiling writer of prose. Each time you read a line of Jibanananda's short stories, you re-examine your ideas of sentence structure and word association. You are forced to question your own abilities of comprehension. And yet, this man isn't difficult to read at all. All he wants to do is to show you a new way of expressing yourself, a fresh route to arrive at wonder. What a man, what a poet, what a teacher.
The greatest Bangla poet since Tagore, yes, but
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The most successful writer of narrative fiction