Penguin Book of Bengali Short Stories Publisher / UNSW Galleries Amalia Robredo

Amalia Robredo

Leaving clear

Written in the last years of the author’s life

The Dailies offers only traces – signs of consumption

Penguin Book of Bengali Short Stories Publisher / UNSW Galleries Amalia RobredoA landmark anthology, staking a new claim for Bengali literature in English The prose short story arrived in Bengal in the wake of British colonizers, and Bengali writers quickly made the form their own. By the twentieth century a profusion of literary magazines and journals meant they were being avidly read by millions. Writers responded to this hunger for words with a ferocious energy which reflected the turmoil of their times: these stories covered