The Poetic Tone of a Storyteller: A Comparative Study between Some of Saadat Hasan Manto and Bonoful’s Short Stories

Abstract

Bolai Chand Mukhopadhyay was, a major literary figure in twentieth-century Bengali literature and Sadat Hasan Manto is largely known for his stories in the Urdu language on the Partition of India and Pakistan. These two writers are from different languages but have similar social and political situations. Though their language was different but there are some similar aspects in their writing that brings them closer as a writer. This study aims to analyze their style as a writer of short stories, find out the thematic similarities with the example of some of their short stories and above all, this study will try to prove that their outlook regarding society, human life and philosophy of life is quite similar and those similarities of perspective worked like a common cord in there writing. Another main aspect of their writing is, though they are storytellers but sometimes the uniqueness of their writing style, creates a poetic effect in their short stories This study will investigate those poetic aspects of their writing.