ప్రేమ గురించి ఆలోచిస్తే నాకు మొదట గుర్తుకొచ్చే నవల లవ్ ఇన్ ది టైమ్ ఆఫ్ కలరా. ప్రేమ లోని అనేక దృక్కోణాలు, పార్శ్వల గురించి Marquez ఈ నవలలో విస్తృతంగా స్పృశించాడు. ప్రేమ నిర్మలమైనది, అమలినమైనది కాదని ఈ నవల మనకు తెలియచేస్తుంది. ప్రేమలో అనంతమైన స్వార్ధం ఉన్నది, అనుకున్నది, కోరుకున్నది దక్కించుకోవాలన్న కాంక్ష ఉన్నది. నేను చదువుకున్న త్యాగమయమైన ప్రేమ కధలకు ఇది పూర్తిగా భిన్నమైనది. యుక్త వయస్సు నుంచి తను ప్రేమించిన Fermina…
Being shipwrecked on a remote, uninhabited island in the 18th century. Communication is non-existent. There is no hope of rescue. The wreck is the only source of supplies but there is the green tropical island full of Nature’s bounty. This is the age of enlightenment, the age of discovery. An age which believes in the…
A return to Sholokhov’s sweeping Cossack world, where war, revolution, landscape, love and human endurance move together across generations.
A protagonist who is the epitome of vice From 18th century England, Daniel Defoe portrays the character of a woman who is born destitute and poor, who is wronged by fate but crafts her way in the world to establish herself as the epitome of vice. She is the angel of wickedness, deceit, lure and…
I read two novels back to back; Persuasion by Jane Austen. Miles apart from Persuasion; shorn of convention, vehemently personal and intimate, anti-establishmentarian, exuberant and seminal, looking for that ultimate epiphanous blast in a vortex of sex, booze and drugs; necessary perhaps to disembowel and disrobe yourself, to get engrossed in Life’s simple mysteries, to…
A reflection on Bulgakov’s celebrated novel and the strange, satirical world in which the magical and the political continually disturb one another.
The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis. A Romance was published in the year 1796. The word romance may be a little misleading and has to be understood in the context of the 18th century as Imaginary or Super-natural. Is there a place for the super-natural amidst human society? If the scriptures are to be believed,…
A reading of Márquez’s great fictional universe, where family history, memory, solitude and the magical become inseparable from ordinary life.
A novel by Charles Dickens espouses most of my predilections about the Novel; be it the plot, the characterization, an underlying philosophy, a love of humanity, the triumph of good over evil, the victory of the underdog, the rewarding of the morally strong and the general feeling of happiness and well being. So no wonder…
In the days of the Wild West, when writers were busy writing about questions like, freedom, love, morality, Edgar Allan Poe was delving into the more mysterious aspects of life which touched upon the eerie, the grotesque, the occult and the arcane. The stories of Poe have an aura of the mysterious and Gothic about…