![]() ![]() Tanay’s narrative is an imaginary, emotionally intense dialogue between an “I” and a “you.” Anuja’s narrative consists of diary entries where she tries to reconstruct her life after her lover leaves her. The novel, divided into two parts (“Tanay” and “Anuja”), depicts the profound impact this stranger has on the two characters after he disappears without explanation. The everyday and erotic lives of two characters, a gay man named Tanay and his sister Anuja, are completely altered after a young artist, whose backstory remains shrouded in mystery, rents an upstairs room in their parental home. Sachin Kundalkar’s Marathi novel, Cobalt Blue, brilliantly translated by Jerry Pinto, deploys a similar device. ![]() Consider Pasolini’s Teorema, where the entrance of an opaque character called “The Visitor” radically changes the day-to-day existence of five characters. ![]() The entrance of an unknown stranger who radically impacts the lives of other characters is a commonly used fictional device. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |