KAPPALINEKKURICHORU VICHITHRAPUSTHAKAM
Indu Menon
KAPPALINEKKURICHORU VICHITHRAPUSTHAKAM കപ്പലിനെക്കുറിച്ചൊരു വിചിത്രപുസ്തകം - 1 - Kottayam DC Books 2015/08/01 - 423
ജീവിതതതിനറെയും പരണയതതിനറെയും രതിയുടെയും വയതയസതതലങങളെ ആവിഷകരികകുനന നോവൽ . മൂനനു ശതാബദങങൾകകപപുറം ജലസമാധിയടഞഞ ജനറൽ ആൽബർടടോ മെയർ എനന ഭീമാകാരകപപൽ അനവേഷിചചുപുറപപെടട കൃഷണചനദരൻ. അവനറെ ജനമാനതരപരേമതതിനറെയും കാതതിരിപപിനറെയും കഥയിൽ എണണം പറഞഞ സൃഷടികളിലൂടെ ആസവാദകമനസസിൽ ചിറപരതിഷഠനേടുകയും ദേശീയതലതതിൽ യുവസാഹിതയകാരനമാർകകുളള പുരസകാരം കൈകകലാകകുകയും ചെയത ഇനദു മേനോൻറെ ആദയ നോവൽ
The Hindu 'Kappalinaekkurichoru Vichithrapusthakam'
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books and literature
Malayalam literature
debut books
The romance of a spectre ship and a primal sea and the lives of innumerable souls caught in the magic of their song would be how one could describe Indu Menon’s debut novel Kappalinekkurichoru Vichithrapusthakam. But the treasure trove of imagery that this motif yields has been plumbed to its utter depths by a writer whose forte is her style.
It is the mesmerising beauty of its language that gives this book a bewitching charm that is not easy to repel. A weather-beaten ship built with the wizened teak from Nilambur forests in the seventeenth century and its Transatlantic journeys laden with gold ore and the rarest of gems thus becomes a mythic time travel across human consciousness. The mysterious disappearance of the ship and the numerous quests for it mark the central plot of the novel.
And yet it is a story not about ships but shipwrecked souls in the vast shores of time. Like children playing with pebbles on the sea shore the characters play with memories on the quick sand of time. The vast array of characters, each locked into the prison of their selves, attain a bewildering intensity as the reader tries to connect one cascading narrative with another.
The mythic sea, with its pre modern connections and spiritual and mystic associations, as also the desires it hides in its breast, is an image that never fails to charm readers. The enigmatic ocean, hiding the mystery ship and the magic island of Marico, offers a symbolically lush backdrop to the agonies and ecstasies of the romantic hearts on shore. It is a land where the past and the future can barely be distinguished from the present; a land where marijuana fragrances blend with the smell of death and the sea; a land where the music of slow tide and seasons echo the rhythmic ebb and flow of civilisations.
It’s a book that is most striking in its use of magical realism. The narrator is reading the same book that the reader is reading, thus locking the teller and the tale into a symbiotic relationship. Here is a brilliant blending of reality with the supernatural and folklore, mixing myth and memory in the process, and melding the ordinary with the extraordinary. Thus strange, wondrous things happen in these pages, leaving the reader spellbound and startled.
And yet it is the lyrical, magical language that leaves a faint feeling of intoxication. By the end of the book the reader is drunk with the sheer beauty of language and surprised by its capacity to create visuals of such great intensity and vividness.
Kappalinekkurichoru Vichithrapusthakam is a book that one can add to the mythic migration narratives of Malayalis. It links Kerala to a global market of goods and desires. However, the twist in the tale is that it is in how you read and interpret it that the book’s rich and evocative history can be decoded. It also reveals a labyrinth of secret desires that forms the core of Kerala society today.
As the aesthetic and the erotic blend in an explosion of style and craft, one nevertheless feels a curious unease. It is male sexual desires and explicitly male ways of looking that the author writes into these pages. The eroticised female body and the celebration of virgin bodies and paedophilic desires mark it as a book that inscribes patriarchy covertly while seeking to question it on the surface. Here is a book that writes the Eros and pathos of human existence on isolated islands of time.
9788126464517
Purchase Current Books, Convent Road, Ernakulam
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KAPPALINEKKURICHORU VICHITHRAPUSTHAKAM കപ്പലിനെക്കുറിച്ചൊരു വിചിത്രപുസ്തകം - 1 - Kottayam DC Books 2015/08/01 - 423
ജീവിതതതിനറെയും പരണയതതിനറെയും രതിയുടെയും വയതയസതതലങങളെ ആവിഷകരികകുനന നോവൽ . മൂനനു ശതാബദങങൾകകപപുറം ജലസമാധിയടഞഞ ജനറൽ ആൽബർടടോ മെയർ എനന ഭീമാകാരകപപൽ അനവേഷിചചുപുറപപെടട കൃഷണചനദരൻ. അവനറെ ജനമാനതരപരേമതതിനറെയും കാതതിരിപപിനറെയും കഥയിൽ എണണം പറഞഞ സൃഷടികളിലൂടെ ആസവാദകമനസസിൽ ചിറപരതിഷഠനേടുകയും ദേശീയതലതതിൽ യുവസാഹിതയകാരനമാർകകുളള പുരസകാരം കൈകകലാകകുകയും ചെയത ഇനദു മേനോൻറെ ആദയ നോവൽ
The Hindu 'Kappalinaekkurichoru Vichithrapusthakam'
TOPICS
books and literature
Malayalam literature
debut books
The romance of a spectre ship and a primal sea and the lives of innumerable souls caught in the magic of their song would be how one could describe Indu Menon’s debut novel Kappalinekkurichoru Vichithrapusthakam. But the treasure trove of imagery that this motif yields has been plumbed to its utter depths by a writer whose forte is her style.
It is the mesmerising beauty of its language that gives this book a bewitching charm that is not easy to repel. A weather-beaten ship built with the wizened teak from Nilambur forests in the seventeenth century and its Transatlantic journeys laden with gold ore and the rarest of gems thus becomes a mythic time travel across human consciousness. The mysterious disappearance of the ship and the numerous quests for it mark the central plot of the novel.
And yet it is a story not about ships but shipwrecked souls in the vast shores of time. Like children playing with pebbles on the sea shore the characters play with memories on the quick sand of time. The vast array of characters, each locked into the prison of their selves, attain a bewildering intensity as the reader tries to connect one cascading narrative with another.
The mythic sea, with its pre modern connections and spiritual and mystic associations, as also the desires it hides in its breast, is an image that never fails to charm readers. The enigmatic ocean, hiding the mystery ship and the magic island of Marico, offers a symbolically lush backdrop to the agonies and ecstasies of the romantic hearts on shore. It is a land where the past and the future can barely be distinguished from the present; a land where marijuana fragrances blend with the smell of death and the sea; a land where the music of slow tide and seasons echo the rhythmic ebb and flow of civilisations.
It’s a book that is most striking in its use of magical realism. The narrator is reading the same book that the reader is reading, thus locking the teller and the tale into a symbiotic relationship. Here is a brilliant blending of reality with the supernatural and folklore, mixing myth and memory in the process, and melding the ordinary with the extraordinary. Thus strange, wondrous things happen in these pages, leaving the reader spellbound and startled.
And yet it is the lyrical, magical language that leaves a faint feeling of intoxication. By the end of the book the reader is drunk with the sheer beauty of language and surprised by its capacity to create visuals of such great intensity and vividness.
Kappalinekkurichoru Vichithrapusthakam is a book that one can add to the mythic migration narratives of Malayalis. It links Kerala to a global market of goods and desires. However, the twist in the tale is that it is in how you read and interpret it that the book’s rich and evocative history can be decoded. It also reveals a labyrinth of secret desires that forms the core of Kerala society today.
As the aesthetic and the erotic blend in an explosion of style and craft, one nevertheless feels a curious unease. It is male sexual desires and explicitly male ways of looking that the author writes into these pages. The eroticised female body and the celebration of virgin bodies and paedophilic desires mark it as a book that inscribes patriarchy covertly while seeking to question it on the surface. Here is a book that writes the Eros and pathos of human existence on isolated islands of time.
9788126464517
Purchase Current Books, Convent Road, Ernakulam
Novalukal
A