The Hungryalists

The Poets who Sparked a Revolution

• Author(s): Maitreyee B. Chowdhury,
• Publisher: Viking
• Pages: 272
• ISBN_10: 0670090859
  ISBN_13: 9780670090853
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Biography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / Asian & Asian American , Biography & Autobiography / Historical , Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures , History / Asia / General , History / Modern / 20th Century / General , History / Social History , Literary Criticism / General , Literary Criticism / Poetry , Literary Criticism / Comparative Literature ,

Description:... This is the never-told-before story of the Hungry generation (or the Hungryalists) a group of barnstorming, anti-establishment poets, writers, artists and activists in Bengal in the sixties. Braving social boycott, ridicule, and arrest, the Hungryalists changed the literary landscape of Bengal forever. Along the way, they also influenced iconic poets such as Allen Ginsberg who struck up a lifelong friendship with the Hungryalists.