summary of fritz written by satyajit ray
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Fritz : About the author
Satyajit Ray was an Indian filmmaker, writer, composer, visual artist and author who is known for his outstanding contribution to Indian and World Cinema. Born to a wealthy family in Calcutta, Ray’s father and grandfather were both Bengali writers of considerable repute. Ray’s family were the adherents of Brahmo Samaj ( a reformed Hindu sect founded by the thinker Raja Ram Mohan Roy) whose progressive attitudes towards society and culture was to be seen later in his films.
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Fritz : Summary
The narrator and his friend Jayanto had put up at a bungalow in Bundi, Rajasthan where the latter had once stayed as a six-year old kid. Because the narrator was a teacher and Jayanto worked in the editorial department of a newspaper, the trip took a long time in coming as it could materialize only when both were free. Jayanto’s insistence and Rabindranath Tagore’s poem The Fort of Bundi both played a great role in deciding the destination for their trip.
Upon their arrival, the two couldn’t help but marvel at antique quaintness of the town, reminiscent of the old Rajputana. The place seemed to belong to the past and the only reminders of modern life were the cobbled streets and some electric poles. The circuit house belonged to the British Era and was rather splendid with its sloping tiled roof, high ceilings, a veranda and a huge garden haunted by a variety of birds.
The narrator was quick to notice that Jayanto had turned quiet after arriving at Bundi and attributed his quietness and to his childhood memories . Upon inquiry, Jayanto claimed his silence was a result of a change in perception he felt as he entered the place: of how the seemingly grand chair to his child-self seemed a tiny one, now that he was an adult. While walking around the courtyard, Jayanto suddenly exclaimed “Deodar” and narrated how his uncle had gifted him a little Swiss doll named Fritz , how he was obsessively attached to it, of how he had been unfortunately destroyed by some stray dogs and how he had buried it under the deodar tree in the veranda.
The man who had sold it to his uncle had once jocularly remarked :
‘He’s called Fritz. You must call him by this name . He won’t respond to any other.’
At night, the narrator was disturbed by a slight noise and was awakened to find Jayanto sitting up, terribly agitated. Jayanto told him that something had woken him up. However, the narrator inferred that his friend had a bad dream and went to sleep. Some mysterious marks had been formed in the quilt Jayanto had used but neither could say for sure how it was formed and the narrator was too sleepy to think about it any further. The next morning he saw that Jayanto had not slept at all. They left for the Bundi fort at nine in the morning and Jayanto came to his normal self. However, by the time they returned to the bungalow, Jayanto’s agitation returned as well and with great reluctance, he told the narrator the it was Fritz who had entered the room that night and that the mysterious marks on the quilt were Fritz’ footprints. The narrator was naturally startled by this remark and decided that he could not allow his friend to go insane in this manner. Determined to resolve the issue once and for all, he called for a gardener and paid him five rupees to dig up the spot under the Deodar tree where Fritz had supposedly been buried. After a long digging, the find scared the living daylights out of the curious folks :
“There lay at our feet, covered in dust, lying flat on its back, a twelve -inch-long, pure white, perfect little human skeleton.”