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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{short description|Bengali novel by Syed Mustafa Siraj}}<br />
{{Infobox book|<!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels or Wikipedia:WikiProject_Books --><br />
| name = Aleek Manush<br />
| author = [[Syed Mustafa Siraj]]<br />
| pub_date = 1988<br />
| language = Bengali<br />
| country = India<br />
| award = [[Sahitya Akademi Award]]<br />
| publisher = Dey's Publishing<br />
}}<br />
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'''''Aleek Manush''''' ({{Translation|''Mythical Man''}}<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Mustāphā Sirāja |first1=Saiẏada |title=Mythical man |last2=Chakravarty |first2=Sudeshna |last3=Mustāphā Sirāja |first3=Saiẏada |date=2005 |publisher=Sahitya Akademi |isbn=978-81-260-2114-7 |edition=1. publ |location=New Delhi}}</ref>) is a Bengali novel by [[Syed Mustafa Siraj]], first published in 1988.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2012-09-04 |title=Voice of the 'other' India falls silent |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/voice-of-the-other-india-falls-silent/article3859575.ece |access-date=2025-04-16 |work=The Hindu |language=en-IN |issn=0971-751X}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last1=Mustāphā Sirāja |first1=Saiẏada |title=Die, said the tree and other stories |last2=Sen |first2=Nivedita |date=2012 |publisher=Katha |isbn=978-81-89934-98-9 |edition=1. publ |location=New Delhi}}</ref> Set in rural [[Murshidabad district|Murshidabad]], it follows a Farazi preacher and his son, who rejects religious orthodoxy.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Chakrabarti |first=Sumita |date=1989 |title=Bengali Scene: Fiction Most Popular |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23331303 |journal=Indian Literature |volume=32 |issue=6 (134) |pages=19–25 |jstor=23331303 |issn=0019-5804}}</ref> The novel explores identity, dissent, and transformation within Muslim communities amid political unrest, spiritual tension, and anti-colonial struggle from the late 19th century to post-independence India.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Mukherjee |first=Meenakshi |date=2000 |title=The local and the global: Literary implications in India |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/89066925 |journal=University of the Witwatersrand |location=United Kingdom |publication-place=Oxford |volume=43 |issue=2 |issn=0013-8398 |id={{ProQuest|89066925}} }}</ref> Written in a lyrical, albeit grounded prose style, it shows how [[metaphysics]] and politics shape everyday village life.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Mukherjee |first=Meenakshi |date=2000 |title=The local and the global: Literary implications in India |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/89066925 |journal=University of the Witwatersrand |location=United Kingdom |publication-place=Oxford |volume=43 |issue=2 |issn=0013-8398 |id={{ProQuest|89066925}} }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Ullash |first=Asif |date=2023-06-01 |title=অলীক মানুষ: ব্যক্তিসত্ত্বা বিবর্তনের এক নির্মোহ আখ্যান |url=https://archive.roar.media/bangla/book/book-movie/oleek-manush-book-review |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241209105758/https://archive.roar.media/bangla/book/book-movie/oleek-manush-book-review |archive-date=December 9, 2024 |access-date=2025-04-16 |website=archive.roar.media |language=bn-BD}}</ref> It is also lauded as an excellent work of [[Magical realism|magic realism]].<ref>{{Cite book |title=The Oxford handbook of Gabriel García Márquez |date=2021 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-006716-8 |editor-last=Bell-Villada |editor-first=Gene H. |series=Oxford handbooks online Literature |location=New York |pages=269 |editor-last2=López-Calvo |editor-first2=Ignacio}}</ref><br />
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The novel received the [[Sahitya Akademi Award]] in 1994.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2012-09-05 |title=Syed Mustafa Siraj charmed young minds with his Detective Colonel |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/west-bengal/syed-mustafa-siraj-charmed-young-minds-with-his-detective-colonel/ |access-date=2025-04-16 |website=The Indian Express |language=en}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
*''[[iarchive:in.ernet.dli.2015.301676|Aleek Manush]]'' at [[Internet Archive]]<br />
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[[Category:Novels by Syed Mustafa Siraj]]<br />
[[Category:1988 Indian novels]]<br />
[[Category:Bengali-language novels]]<br />
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