![]() ![]() But Syed Haq captured the life of urban Bengalis and wrote about the turmoil, tensions and contradictions of the rising middle class,” wrote Professor Anisuzzaman pointing out the new trend in literary work that Syed Haq's writing triggered and how a whole new generation of writers was created under his influence. “Before him most of the well-known novelists or short story writers based their stories on rural Bengal. ![]() He had an intuitive sense of the format that would best express his thoughts-whether through a poem, a play or a novel, etc. In everything he wrote he showed his uniqueness just as much in what he had to say as in the way he said it. Syed Haq, as he was called by most of his admirers, is simultaneously a novelist, a poet, a playwright, an essayist and a powerful social commentator, and in all these varied fields he impressed his readers with his originality. ![]() Syed Shamsul Haq's presence in Bangla literature is so all-encompassing and his brilliance so overwhelming in all the branches of creative writing in which he is present that the accolade that he was a literary genius would not in any way overstate his extraordinary talent. Each time I heard him I felt what a magician with words he was. Every time I heard him speak I felt dazzled-dazzled by his thoughts, his insights, his ability to pinpoint what needed to be understood, his precision of language and his immaculate choice of words in expressing himself. ![]()
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