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"An undertaking to demystify love "
"Chyatna Nasakeko Chithi is an experimental novel in which the author has tactfully presented interesting paradoxes in various layers and plains of intricate plot. The protagonist's inner conflict and identity, observation and the
subject, the discourse and the essence, are some of the issues where paradoxes can be seen. In addition, the author has done a unique experiment by overlapping the reader's domain with that of the story's. The manuscript of the novelette is in fact an
internal document from the story. So, when a reader holds the book in his or her hands and starts to read it, he or she becomes a character of the story...
... The protagonist Kusha's love was never mysterious and mystical at any time of the story. It was always objective. It does not hang on to higher ideals. It stands on totally raw self-interest, needs, and an unrestrained libido. Love is presented in a raw and concrete form everywhere in the story. The author appears to be determined to demystify love. And he indeed does so honestly by convincingly failing to find a distinct and pure form of love in a deadly pursuit. The all out pursuit of a distinct and pure form of love ends in a mixed and ambivalent one...
... All in all, the novelette is an undertaking to demystify the passionate love. A mystic who does not read the novelette in full, however, might take what happens at the end of the story as positive evidence of the mysticism of love instead. However, the purpose of the author is quite the opposite: the author has deconstructed the mysteries of love into its various comprehensible departments...
... Whatever messages the concluding part gives us are open for interpretation, and it is incumbent upon the protagonist to prove or disprove them. The author, however, has fully succeeded in performing
a cold surgery on passionate love while keeping the sweet agony and beauty of love fully intact."
-Homraj Acharya
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