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Days and nights in the forest (Aranyer Din Ratri)

of Sunil Gangopadhyay

The films of Satyajit Ray Days and nights in the forest screened last week at the River to River happened to your bean, as I just finished a beautiful novel on which it was derived.

Days and nights in the forest ( Aranyer Din Ratri ), written in Bengali in 1968 and only now translated into English, is the second novel by Sunil Gangopadhyay, writer and poet in Bengal but osannatissimo little known in these parts.

Sunil Gangopadhyay was born in 1934 in a village that is now in Bangladesh and lives in Calcutta. He began primarily as a poet, founding the literary magazine Krittibas , but then also wrote dozens of novels, won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1985 for the historical novel Those days ( You Samay), and today is the Sahitya Akademi presitente (the famous Indian literary academy) .

Who was at the Turin Book Fair, will remember him for the literatures in Indian languages \u200b\u200band recite his poems. Recently, his story has been translated into Italian for the anthology AIDS Sutra.

Days and nights in the forest recounts the adventures of four young men of Calcutta, in the sixties, in one of their joints and improvised aimlessly for a few days to escape from bourgeois life and the city.

The four friends find themselves alight at Dhalbhumgar, a small rural village inhabited by tribal peoples, including Bengal and Bihar, to occupy a bungalow in the forest and wandering through the markets, forests and liquor stores.

But despite the symbolic gesture of throwing the newspaper on arrival in the village, with glasses is the city's culture that the four players see and judge that the tribal world, vulnerable and hurt by your "civilization", not can help but eat eggs for breakfast, the beauty of sunsets remind them of the Western films, they are unable to cook for themselves and the meeting with two girls from Calcutta will cause them to slip back into their past.

The forest seems to be the ideal place to highlight the various social contradictions: the relationship between the tribals are never spontaneous, are always tainted by an unconscious sense of superiority of the four children, manifesting itself especially in dealing with women.
There is no communication between the city and the world of the forest, between the bourgeois and the tribal youth and their relationships always end up in an unpleasant manner.

For the four boys, between the alcoholic evenings and nights in the dark forest, the trip will be an exploration of their own fears, remorse, their darkest and most violent aspects, symbolized in the little wounds that emerge here and there like great drops of blood to be measured, each in its own way, with the ratio with one of the women encountered in the forest.

Compared to the film of Satyajit Ray, which illuminates the dark sides of the novel and makes it more light-hearted and comical characters, the novel is much darker and ambiguous.

And above all, art is: if the four are not for anything other than young Western sixties on the road, there are not too different-for one thing-a bunch of guys of our time on holiday in Interail.

modern, restless and alive.