Chilekothar Unmadini by Chinmoy Guha [Hardcover]

A woman like a river, who speaks alone, wandering like water. Her name is Vivienne. T. S. Eliot's friends called her "The River Girl." No one loved her; Virginia Woolf turned up her nose at her. In the history of literature, she has been eternally marked as the madwoman in the attic. Recent discoveries about Vivienne help us see Eliot and his poetry in a new light. This book also includes previously unpublished parts of her diary. The author's English book on Eliot's poetry had created a worldwide sensation. Now, these research findings are presented to readers in simple Bengali.

The book also includes valuable essays by a distinguished French scholar on topics ranging from the 17th-century French thinker La Rochefoucauld to an extraordinary 19th-century French dictionary, 'Encyclopedia of Stupidity'; the first French-Bengali dictionary (1785) written by an unknown French youth; and the dreamy dialogues between Romain Rolland and India. There is an impeccable evaluation of Western research on the history of suicide. Additionally, there are essays that provoke new thoughts on Mallarmé, Rodin, Henri Michaux, Annada Shankar, Sartre, Beckett, and Jean Anouilh.

There is also a Bengali translation of a very personal and explosive letter from Romain Rolland to Kalidas Nag about Rabindranath Tagore. In today's fragmented world, these essays may reveal a hidden inner connection.