“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”- F. Scott Fitzgerald

1. Literature
“That is part of the
beauty of all literature.
You discover that your
longings are universal
longings, that you're not
lonely and isolated from
anyone. You belong.”-
F. Scott Fitzgerald

2. Question 1:
–X was a man of diversified talent as he was an
ascendant maestro in different fields like
songs, music composing, plays, novels, short
stories and many more. X introduced
extraterrestrial being for the first time in
Bengali literature through his story Y. Identify
X and Y.

3. Answer: X: Hemendra Kumar Roy
Y: Meghduter Mortye Agomon

4. Question 2:
– X was published in 1847 and the second edition was a
posthumous publication after the author died in 1848. This
novel was vastly criticized for shedding sheer mockery
towards the religious hypocrisy of Victorian period. Numerous
soaps, theatres and movies are adapted from this novel. The
first edition was published under a pseudonym “Ellis Bell”.
T.S.Eliot said that X was “an assured demonstration of the
finite and tragically self-consuming nature of passion through
gothic innuendos”. Identify X.

5. Answer: Wuthering Heights

6. Question 3:
– Salman Rushdi said that this novel is the finest specimen of
magic realism on earth and it is miles ahead in qualitative
approach in comparison with Midnights Children. The main
plot of the story is circled around a small town of Macondo.
The establishment of Utopian concept to found the ‘city of
mirrors’ was vastly acclaimed by the critics whereas the
introduction of fluidity of time through the process had
helped this novel to be a list-topper for more than 25 years in
the global literature. Identify the novel.

7. Answer: One Hundred Years
of Solitude

8. Question 4:
–Tintin visited Delhi in ‘Tintin in Tibet’. In his short span
of time, he managed to visit Lal Kella and Qutub Minar.
Nevertheless, he exclaimed grief, as he did not have
enough time to visit another iconic place of Delhi. What
is that place?

9. Answer: Crematorium of Mahatma Gandhi at
Rajghat

11. Question 5:
–The tumultuous life in society around Pavel
Korchagin is the central plot of this novel. Ryokichi
Sugimoto translated the novel into Japanese. Apart
from this, the novel is translated in 42 different
languages including Bengali. Pragati Publication
first published this book in India and Rabindra
Majumder was the translator. Identify this popular
literary piece.

12. Answer: How the steel was tempered/ Ispat by
Nikolai Ostrovsky

13. Question 6:
– X was born on 24 October 1894 in Mithila of Bihar in the family of
Bipin Bihari and Giribala as a ‘Mejo’ son. In later life, he became the
editor of a English daily named ‘Indian Nation’. X was a recipient of
Ananda Puraskar, Rabindra Puraskar and Saratchandra Puraskar and
died at the age of ninety-three as a bachelor. He is regarded as the
prodigy of child psychology and humour and his story ‘Kushi Pranganer
Chithi’ is prescribed as a mandatory book in Intermediate class in
Bihar. A famous Tele-series of 90’s was made based upon his story
along with some popular Bengali movies in 70’s. Identify X.

14. Answer: Bibhutibhusan Mukhopadhyay

15. Question 7:
– This epic literary piece X encompasses a journey from 6000
BC to Quit India Movement in 1942. In later period, the
author stated that the confinement in Hazaribag Jail imbued
passion in him to write this piece through inscribing 20
short historical-fictions. The author was appointed as a
professor of Indology in The University of Leningrad in 1937-
38 and his experience of the socialist Soviet is also reflected
in the creation X. Identify X.

16. Answer: Bholga Theke Gonga

17. Question 8:
– X had a controversial birth in 1967 through Desh Sharodiya
version. According to many, X is a Bengali presentation of
Virginia Wolf’s Mrs. Dalloway. Right after its publication, X
was sued by a young lawyer for being a vague literary piece
containing obscenity. The second edition of X was brought
out in 1985 after the clearance of Supreme Court and
created a major record in sales in the history of Ananda
Publishers. Till today, almost 56000 copies of X are sold
whereas the father of X died long back in 1988. What is X.

18. Answer: Projapoti by Samaresh Basu

19. Question 9:
– X sent a draft of his new creation to Khirod Chandra Mazumder
and after intense persuasion from Khirodbabu, he started to
write the first novel by interjecting the eruption of
adventurous voyage in Bengali literature through his character
Y. The first novel was published in Shuktara and the present
publisher of those novels is Ujjal Sahitya Mandir. X passed
away in 2008 and Y made his last adventure of finding treasure
in 2009 Saradiya Shuktara through a posthumous publication.
Identify X and Y.

20. Answer: X- Anil Bhowmick, Y- Francis