Maranottar
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| Author | Suresh Joshi |
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| Original title | મરણોત્તર |
| Country | India |
| Language | Gujarati |
| Genre | Epistolary novel |
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1973 |
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| Pages | 71 pages |
| 891.473 | |
| LC Class | PK1859.J593 M3 |
| Preceded by | Chhinnapatra (1965) |
Maranottar (Gujarati: મરણોત્તર; English: Posthumous) is a Gujarati novel by Suresh Joshi. The whole novel is written almost in the form of lyrical prose latter style.
The novel is prefaced with five different quotations, one each from György Lukács, Antonín Bartušek, Malcolm Lowry, W. H. Auden and Paul Valery. The theme of death is presented in Lowry's quotation and the technique is suggested by Valery.
The novel has 45 short chapters in 71 printed pages. The chapters are built around the theme of approaching death, written with poetic imagery and ending with the poetic refrain of the name, 'Mrinal'. The novel is addressed to Mrinal, the main female character, and some other few characters like Sudhir, Gopi, Namita and Megha.
Joshi has used the techniques of an extraterrestrial narrator. The novel is narrated in first person.
It is considered as Joshi's prominent experimental novel. However Ila Pathak wrote that, in Maranottar as well as in his another novel Chhinnapatra, the women characters appear only as the targets of men's lustful desires.
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