Influence of Hungryalist movement on Subimal Misra by V.Ramaswami
I believe Debesh Ray, the respected Bengali writer, had once said something to the effect that the impact of the Hungryalist movement in Bengali literature in the 1960s was akin to that of the subsequent Naxalite movement in the political sphere. Through their statue-breaking campaign, Naxalite youths desecrated and decapitated statues of national and cultural icons in order to express their rejection of everything hitherto held as “sacred”. The Hungryalists wanted to see the end of literature as commodity. They wanted writers to open their hearts, minds and senses so as to produce “raw” writing that was free of any garnishing for the commercial establishment, which breaks away from all the old values and tastes upheld by this establishment. They wished for an open expression of sexuality and eroticism in order to destroy the prevailing morality of the literary establishment. Subimal Misra began writing in the late ’60s, and was thus roughly of the Hungryalist generation, although he was not part of the movement. That provides the immediate backdrop. Bengali literature had already been rocked, and a new force of writing had emerged. The space for a writer like him had been created.( Punch magazine )
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