HaJaBaRaLa
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| Author | Sukumar Ray |
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| Translator | Jayinee Basu |
| Illustrator | Sukumar Ray |
| Country | India |
| Language | Bengali |
| Genre(s) | Novella |
| Publisher | Nishtha at Lulu.com |
| Released | 1921 |
| Released in English | 2005 |
| Media Type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 68 pp (Eng. trans.) |
| ISBN | ISBN 1411639839 (Eng. trans.) |
HaJaBaRaLa or HJBRL: A Nonsense Story is a novella or novelette by Sukumar Ray.
This story belongs to the non-sense genre, with most of Sukumar Ray's fiction. There is a similarity to Alice In Wonderland in plot organisation and the ending, though these characteristics can be said to be common to most nonsense stories.
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[edit] Plot introduction
The story starts with a boy suddenly waking up from sleep and finding that the handkerchief he placed just beside him before sleeping has turned into a cat! He starts talking to the cat and starts the ensuing fantasy adventure and meets with many wildly funny characters.
[edit] Plot summary
The boy finds Kakeshwar doing calculations in a slate and doing some mathemetics that appears very unusual to the boy.
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[edit] Characters
Most of the characters have found idiomatic usage in Bengali language, which is true for many of Ray's works.
Some of the main characters are:
- Kakkeshwar kuchkuche
- -a raven.
- Gechodada
- -a character that is only alluded to by Kakkeshwar but never appears in the story.
- Hijibijbij
- -a person who imagines very improbable situations and laughs at them.
- Byakaran singh BA Khadyabisharad
- -a goat who is prone to delivering academic lectures on non-academic subjects such as what-all goats don't eat.
- Nara-a
- bald singer who sings songs with non-sensical lyrics even when nobody has asked him to sing.
- Udho and Budho-Two
- dwarf-type creatures who are fighting one moment and hugging the next. The phrase "Udhor pindi Budhor ghare" has become a very common idiom.
There are many other characters.
[edit] Footnotes
[edit] References
- Ray, Sukumar, Jayinee Basu (trans.) (1921). HJBRL: A Nonsense Story, 2005 Eng. trans., United States: Lulu.com.
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