Chatushkone (The Quadrilateral) is a bengali language novel by Manik Bandopadhyay written in 1948. Manik Bandopadhyay (19 May 1908 - 3 December 1956) was a Bengali novelist and is considered one of the leading lights of modern Bengali fiction. During a short lifespan of 48 years, plagued simultaneously by illness and financial crisis, he produced 36 novels and 177 short stories.
Manik Bandopadhyay (Bengali: 唳唳ㄠ唳� 唳Θ唰嵿Ζ唰嵿Ο唰嬥Κ唳距Η唰嵿Ο唳距Ο唳�) was an Indian Bengali novelist and is considered one of the leading lights of modern Bangla fiction. During a short lifespan of forty-eight years, plagued simultaneously by illness and financial crisis, he produced 36 novels and 177 short-stories. His important works include Padma Nadir Majhi (The Boatman on The River Padma, 1936) and Putul Nacher Itikatha (The Puppet's Tale, 1936), Shahartali (The Suburbia, 1941) and Chatushkone (The Quadrilateral, 1948).
Even by Manik's standard it was a complex book. I don鈥檛 think I have understand it well enough to judge it well. Seemed to me that the main character who deemed himself so highly was kind of nuts. He seemed trapped in his own head and to find solace or some semblance of love he sought out the girls as the mood striked him. Four girls kind of falling for him felt like an exaggeration for me and that fact kind of irritated me a lot. I cannot wrap my head around the fact that this many seemingly bright girls fell for the guy who seemed to have nothing attractive in him. Is this him being aloof? Do girls really fall for the guys who are indifferent? Guess I will never know.