Random notes

Reaching at a genuinely new and appropriate form of narration is the most difficult step in the process of writing a novel.A literay work can fall in the category of novel only if it depicts in detail the evolution of several issues and struggles that formulate the spirit of an age. Innumerable styles have been experimented by novelists in the construction of plot and at times a writer may feel that all the possibilities have been totally exhausted.He/She will have to swim in troubled waters for hours and hours to reach the shore of conviction regarding the form fit for his/her work. Novel is an ambitious literay form.Every novelist tries to travel into the depths and breadths of all areas of human experience and knowledge connected with the plot of the novel.Among novelists some have an inborn ability to keep safely in their memory all the minute details of external realities they witness at any stage in their life.But those who are deeply interested in the inner plays of human mind are generally indifferent towrds such details.Writing a novel is more laborious and painful in their case.Milan kundera,s ‘TheCurtain’ An essay in seven parts brought out in book form by Faber and Faber (2007)presents many a brilliant observations on the history and value of the novel in Western civilization. To have an understanding of a critical historical situation ,Kundera says,we need a great novel that grasp the human content of that situation.Nothing can make up the absence of such a work.’