This is the most successful novel of him, or of the contemporary Bengali novels, for its meticulous psychoanalytic element.
This novel did not achieve great success because Bengali novels of those times were love sagas wrapped in fantasies.
It was one of the earliest Bengali novels and became an instant success.
Pillai was a self-taught man, reading feverishly all kinds of books (especially Bengali novels translated into Malayalam) from a young age.
The novel also happens to be one of the earliest Bengali novels.
It is interesting to note that a number of Bengali novels were translated during this period.
Bengali novels occupy a major part of Bengali literature.
Novels of Bangladesh fall almost fifty years behind the Bengali novels.
His most prestigious work Khoabnama, which came out in 1996, is considered a milestone in the history of Bengali novels.
Nineteenth Century can be marked as the first phase of writing of the Bengali novels.