Akhtaruzzaman Elias : A Note

The leading Bengali fiction writer Akhtaruzzaman's Elias's lines from his _Khoabnama_(in my, admittedly, quick, functional translation, but mark how Elias takes up the question of land as the site of struggle in the shadow of his novelistically mediated "land theory of value," if you will):

But landless farmers have meanwhile gone out of bounds. Their agitation has already begun in town and it seems that the wave of protest may soon reach this eastern part of the village across the Korotoya River. Farmers in Khiyar are now insisting on two shares out of three, wanting to give only one to the landowner. Of course you can always demand whatever you want--you don't have to pay taxes for speaking out.
But the farmers argue that one important fact remains unchanged: the landlord cannot command the land to walk into his courtyard and deliver the crop. Or does he suppose that land is a heron that it can fly in a flash from that monstrous Arjun in Kamarpara to the tree overlooking the mansion of the Mondols? What the fuck does he know about the value of land? Does he know that plowing even a tiny piece of land costs at least a pound of human blood, oozing from the body like salt?