Sofa Cum Bed by Sanjib Chattopadhyay [Hardcover]

Sanji Chattopadhyay's story collection 'Sofa-Cum-Bed' is akin to his earlier work 'Shwet Pathorer Table'. According to critics, Sanjib doesn't merely write humorous stories. Empty humor is just trivial, cheap jokes. Sanjib hasn't tread that path. A particular remark about him is very significant—'the Charlie Chaplin of Bengali literature.' Like Chaplin, Sanjib Chattopadhyay has seen life from a perspective where one must cry to laugh, and laugh before crying. In the view of a learned critic, in today's love-wearied, isolation-bewildered, and revolution-inundated Bengali literature, Sanjib has brought a southern breeze. Sanjib discovers the absurd side of life within the realm of pure reality. But he is not merely a 'humorous writer'. The subtle games of the human mind invigorate his stories with intense affection. This collection includes those exceptional stories—'Mrityudar', 'Pant's Button', 'Sofa-Cum-Bed', 'Thirty-Two Teeth', 'Dheki', 'Treatment', 'Delivery', etc.—which received immense commendation from readers as soon as they were published in magazines and journals.