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పుస్తకం పేరు :తెలుగు నవలా సాహిత్యంలో మనో విశ్లేషణ

రచయిత : కోడూరి శ్రీరామ మూర్తి గారు

ఈ పుస్తకం ఆంధ్రప్రదేశ్ సాహిత్య ఎకాడమీ వారి సాహిత్య విమర్శ గ్రందాల పోటి కోసం రాయ బడినది

Just read an interview of Borges in Paris Review:

http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4331/the-art-of-fiction-no-39-jorge-luis-borges

Some excerpts reflecting essential Borges:

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You have said that your own work has moved from, in the early times, expression, to, in the later times, allusion. What do you mean by allusion?

BORGES: Look, I mean to say this: When I began writing, I thought that everything should be defined by the writer. For example, to say “the moon” was strictly forbidden; that one had to find an adjective, an epithet for the moon. (Of course, I’m simplifying things. I know it because many times I have written “la luna,” but this is a kind of symbol of what I was doing.) Well, I thought everything had to be defined and that no common turns of phrase should be used. I would never have said, “So-and-so came in and sat down,” because that was far too simple and far too easy. I thought I had to find out some fancy way of saying it. Now I find out that those things are generally annoyances to the reader. But I think the whole root of the matter lies in the fact that when a writer is young he feels somehow that what he is going to say is rather silly or obvious or commonplace, and then he tries to hide it under baroque ornament, under words taken from the seventeenth-century writers; or, if not, and he sets out to be modern, then he does the contrary: He’s inventing words all the time, or alluding to airplanes, railway trains, or the telegraph and telephone because he’s doing his best to be modern. Then as time goes on, one feels that one’s ideas, good or bad, should be plainly expressed, because if you have an idea you must try to get that idea or that feeling or that mood into the mind of the reader. If, at the same time, you are trying to be, let’s say, Sir Thomas Browne or Ezra Pound, then it can’t be done. So that I think a writer always begins by being too complicated: He’s playing at several games at the same time. He wants to convey a peculiar mood; at the same time he must be a contemporary and if not a contemporary, then he’s a reactionary and a classic. As to the vocabulary, the first thing a young writer, at least in this country, sets out to do is to show his readers that he possesses a dictionary, that he knows all the synonyms; so we get, for example, in one line, red, then we get scarlet, then we get other different words, more or less, for the same color: purple.

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Now as to Eliot, at first I thought of him as being a finer critic than a poet; now I think that sometimes he is a very fine poet, but as a critic I find that he’s too apt to be always drawing fine distinctions. If you take a great critic, let’s say, Emerson or Coleridge, you feel that he has read a writer, and that his criticism comes from his personal experience of him, while in the case of Eliot you always think—at least I always feel—that he’s agreeing with some professor or slightly disagreeing with another. Consequently, he’s not creative. He’s an intelligent man who’s drawing fine distinctions, and I suppose he’s right; but at the same time after reading, to take a stock example, Coleridge on Shakespeare, especially on the character of Hamlet, a new Hamlet had been created for you, or after reading Emerson on Montaigne or whoever it may be. In Eliot there are no such acts of creation. You feel that he has read many books on the subject—he’s agreeing or disagreeing—sometimes making slightly nasty remarks, no?

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I have known many poets here who have written well—very fine stuff—with delicate moods and so on—but if you talk with them, the only thing they tell you is smutty stories or they speak of politics in the way that everybody does, so that really their writing turns out to be kind of sideshow. They had learned writing in the way that a man might learn to play chess or to play bridge. They were not really poets or writers at all. It was a trick they had learned, and they had learned it thoroughly. They had the whole thing at their finger ends. But most of them—except four or five, I should say—seemed to think of life as having nothing poetic or mysterious about it. They take things for granted. They know that when they have to write, then, well, they have to suddenly become rather sad or ironic. [They] put on the writer’s hat and get into a right mood, and then write. Afterward, they fall back on current politics.

Reading “Designing Embedded Hardware” by John Catsoulis
Available on Flipkart here.

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వంశీ కి నచ్చిన కథలు పుస్తకం ఎక్కడ దొరుకుతుందో కొంచం చెప్పగలరా..

ఇటీవలే నేను ప్రముఖ కవి,రచయిత గుల్జార్ గారి ”రావి పార్ ‘ అండ్ అదర్ స్టోరీస్ ‘ ఆంగ్ల అనువాదం చదివాను. రోజుకి ఒక్కో కథ మాత్రమే చదివే వాడిని, ఎందుకంటే ఆ కథనే మరల మరలా మననం చేసుకోవడానికి వీలుగా… అంత చక్కని కథలు. ముఖ్యంగా టై టిల్ కథ ‘రావి పార్ ‘ … స్వాతంత్ర్యం వచ్చినప్పుడు దేశం రెండుగా చీలినప్పుడు ఆ ప్రాంత ప్రజల మనో వేదన ఎంతో హృ ద్యంగా ఆవిష్కరించింది.

శ్రీమదాంధ్రమహాభారతం – కవిత్రయ ప్రణీతం – ప్రతిపదార్థ తాత్పర్యాలతో కూడిన తిరుపతి తిరుమల దేవస్థానం వారి ప్రచురణ – ఆది పర్వం పూర్తయింది. సభాపర్వం చదువుతున్నాను. అనేకానేక తెలుగు పదాలకు అర్థాలు తెలుస్తున్నాయి.మొత్తం 18 పర్వాలు 15 బౌండు పుస్తకాలుగా తిరుపతిలోని టి.టి.డి వారి ప్రెస్సులో 1000 రూపాయలకు లభించినవి.

@Purnima: పూర్ణిమ గారు, “కాళీపట్నం రామారావు మాష్టారు సంపూర్ణ రచనల సంకలనం” పుస్తకం గురించేనా మీరు చెప్పారు? లేదంటే ఆ పుస్తకం శీర్షిక కూడా తెలపగలరు.

amma odiloki payanam (oka america swami atmakadha)
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Excellent. chaala bagundi manchi inspiring ga undi. chadavani varide duradrustam, migilini varu elagu adrustavanrule. 🙂

@విజయవర్ధన్:

లేదండీ! నేను ఏ.పి. ఆర్కైవ్స్, తార్నాక నుండి ఫోటోకాపీ ఇప్పించుకున్నాను. బయట మరెక్కడైనా దొరుకుతుందన్నది అనుమానమే! పాత లైబ్రరీలో ఉండచ్చేమో!

Me going through The Hindu Speaks on IT, and The Hindu speaks on Music. Awesome reading

@మెహెర్: I have seen some baker’s dozen Revanths 😀

And some of his names are funny… Especially the paradox of Gandhi…

Recently finished reading “VandElla Telugu Katha”, “Telugu Kathaku JeJe”. Both books carry some very good stories… however it was really really really disappointing that likes of “Peddi Botla Subbiraamayya” and “Madhuramthakam Rajaram” did not make it into both books.
Also, read “Kaantham Kathalu” by Muni Manikyam Narasimha Rao.
Also read “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck. In this short novel Steinbeck takes readers to the midst of his characters and story.
Currently reading “Malladi Ramakrishna Sastry Kathalu – 2”.