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Malay Roy Choudhury (born 29 October 1939) is an Indian Bengali poet and novelist who founded the "Hungryalist Movement" in the 1960s. No one seems to know what happened between his Birth and the founding of the "Hungryalist Movement", neither it would seem, does anyone know where these "Hungryalists" where educated with their Chaucer and Spengler. His literary works have, however, been reviewed by sixty critics in ''HAOWA 49'', a quarterly magazine which devoted its January 2001 special issue to Roy Choudhury's life and works. Commemorative issues have been published by ''Ahabkal'' and ''Aabar Eshechhi Phirey'' magazines on Malay Roychoudhury. Prof Swati Banerjee has based her MPhil thesis on his poems' anti-establishment features. Gale Research, based in Ohio, United States, published an autobiography of Roy Choudhury (in ''CAAS'' vol. 14), and both the Bangla Academy and the Northwestern University (Illinois), have archives of Roy Choudhury's "Hungry Literary Generation" publications. The Little Magazine Library and Research Centre, Kolkata has a complete section devoted to Malay Roy Choudhury's works. Prof B.Dey of Assam University has been awarded PhD for his 350-page seminal work on Malay Roy Choudhury and The Hungryalist Movement. == Literary movement == Creativity ran in the veins, so early in life both Samir and his brother Malay directed many plays including 'Veer Shivaji' the script of which was prepared by the noted writer Phanishwar Nath 'Renu', and Rabindra Nath Tagore's 'Raktakarabi'. The Hungry generation literary Movement was initially spearheaded by Roy Choudhury, Samir Roychoudhury (his elder brother), Shakti Chattopadhyay, and Haradhon Dhara (alias Debi Roy). Thirty more poets and artists subsequently joined them, the best-known being Rajkamal Chaudhary, Binoy Majumdar, (Utpal Kumar Basu ), Falguni Roy, Subimal Basak, Tridib Mitra, Rabindra Guha, and Anil Karanjai. Roy Choudhury is to the "Hungryalist Movement" as Stéphane Mallarmé was to Symbolism, Ezra Pound to Imagism, André Breton to Surrealism, and Allen Ginsberg to the Beats. The movement is now known in English as Hungryalism or the "Hungry generation", its name being derived from Geoffrey Chaucer's "In the sowre hungry tyme"; the philosophy was based on Oswald Spengler's "The Decline of the West". The movement's bulletins were published both in Bengali and infrequently in English as well as Hindi Language by Roy Choudhury since November 1961. The movement, however, petered out in 1965 when the West Bengal Government issued arrest warrants against eleven Hungryalists including Samir and Malay . Some of the Hungryalists such as Subhash Ghosh and Saileshwar Ghosh testified against Roy Choudhury in Calcutta's Bankshall Court. Thereafter Roy Choudhury ventured out, apart from poetry, into fiction, drama, and essays on social and cultural issues that Bengali people have been suffering from. Howard McCord, formerly English teacher at the Washington State University and later professor of English language and literature at Bowling Green University, who met Roy Choudhury during a visit to Calcutta, has succinctly traced Malay's emergence in these words in Ferlinghetti-edited ''City Lights Journal'' 3: "Malay Roy Choudhury, a Bengali poet, has been a central figure in the Hungry Generation's attack on the Indian cultural establishment since the movement began in the early 1960s". He wrote, "acid, destructive, morbid, nihilistic, outrageous, mad, hallucinatory, shrill—these characterize the terrifying and cleansing visions" of Malay Roy Choudhury that "Indian literature must endure if it is to be vital again". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Malay Roy Choudhury」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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