Friday, November 02, 2007

Ponniyin selvan -An experience

I've been meaning to write about this epic from ages. but never really put pen to paper...

The truth is any amount of reviews or words explaining this book would be wasted and it would not even begin to encompass the true beauty of this book.How do u explain an experience?(Ponniyin Selvan to me is an experience , not just another good book).There is always a possibility that my expression might dilute the reality or override your true experience with the book.

Ponniyin Selvan unlike other novels doesn't just string together events, rather it creates a melody of events which presents itself as a perfect background for the mating of the prose of the mind and the poetic characters.

Each character is well rounded and defined.This is a huge task,given the scad amount of characters in PS. Take for example the character of Poonkuzhali's father,Thyagar Vidangar,this character gets almost obscured amongst the main ones ,but Kalki has defined even Thyagar using his other character,Aniruddha Bhramayar.No word or sentence in the book can be termed repetitive .

It is a book which gently ebbs you onto a plane of imagination and from there weaves forth the Chozha country and its denizens for you.

More on PS yet to come... this is just the beginning.

4 comments:

anthiltg said...

Who is your fav char in it??? :)

Gargs said...

anirudha bhramayar and poonkuzhali of course...
She really is something....

even though u didnt ask who ididnt like ill still go ahead and state it..Vannathi.. too very cry babyish and disgustingly dependent...

anthiltg said...

I am sure you think Vannathi is similar to Ash ;-)

Gargs said...

Not as conniving as ash..
:-P