Oorsutri

இந்தப் பக்கத்தை தமிழில் வாசிக்க: ஊர்சுற்றி ‎

Oorsutri

Oorsutri (2016) is a novel written by Yuvan Chandrasekar. Sitapathi goes away from the village and returns after a long time and narrates his life stories to another person. The novel unfolds through his different experiences.

Writing, Publication

Yuvan Chandrasekar wrote this novel in 2016 and published by Kalachuvadu Publishing.

Synopsis

Unable to stay in the village after the untimely death of his parents, Sitapathi, who left as a nomad in 1936 at the age of sixteen, returned to the village in his eighties to spend his last days in the village where he was born. He tells his life to Kamalakannan, who comes to the village for film shooting, to ask him about his life.

In this novel, written with the 'unreliable narrator' technique used in fiction, Sitapathi talks about his life on different platforms such as sex, magical events.

Literary Significance

When assessing the novel, Cuddalore Cheenu says "The novel tends to approach and consider the basic questions that literature considers such as lust, loneliness, life and spirituality, with the pretense that there is no such central question."

References

• Oorsutri - Cuddalore Cheenu, Pathagai

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