Chhinnapatra
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| Author | Suresh Joshi |
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| Original title | છિન્નપત્ર |
| Translator | Tridip Suhrud |
| Cover artist | Bhupen Khakhar |
| Country | India |
| Language | Gujarati |
| Genre | Diary novel |
| Publisher | Parshva Publication (Gujarati ed.), Macmillan India (English ed.) |
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1965 |
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Published in English
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1998 |
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| Pages |
122 pages (Gujarati ed.) |
| OCLC | 41532391 |
| 891.473 | |
| LC Class | PK1859.J593 |
| Followed by | Maranottar (1973) |
122 pages (Gujarati ed.)
Chhinnapatra (Gujarati: છિન્નપત્ર, English: Crumpled letter) is a Gujarati novel by Suresh Joshi.
Joshi published Chhinnnapatra in 1965. In its wake, Shrikant Shah, Madhu Rye, Chandrakant Bakshi, Radheshyam Sharma and Mukund Parikh published their novels Asti (1966), Chahera (1966), Paralysis (1967), Fero (1968) and Mahabhinishkraman (1968) respectively.
Chhinnapatra literally means the "torn pages" or the "tattered letter" in Gujarati. As the title indicates, this is a collection of the torn pages of a scrapbook. Contains fifty pages, the scrapbook belongs to Ajay who has written it. The inner reality of his being is presented here through his understanding of himself, his love for Mala, and a few other persons. The complexity of his love, the nuances of his emotion, the pangs of his agony are all depicted here with the help of images and symbols. The appendix of scrapbook explains past as a flashback and ends novel.
Joshi has himself considered it as a "a draft of novel" instead of novel. So it rejects conventional canon of novel writing. Two of the critics have said that the depiction of the characters in this novel is 'phenomenological'.Shirish Panchal wrote that, among Joshi's longer works of fiction Chhinnapatra deserves a special mention.Aniruddh Brahmabhatt wrote that, this type of modern novel has negated the age old concept that a novel can't survive out of its social milieu.
It is translated into English as Crumpled Letter by Tridip Suhrud in 1998.
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