LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 13:12 December 2013
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
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S.K. Pottekkat’s Twelve Stories
Translated into English by K. Parameswaran
- A Review

Binu George

S. K Pottekkat, winner of several awards including Kendra and Kerala Sahitya Academy Awards, and a Jnanapith Award, is a prolific writer who represents a nation, especially a generation with its great literary saga. Pottekkat, who marked his entry into literary field with the publication of Rajaneethi in 1930, played various roles in his life as a teacher, traveller, writer (novels, travelogues, short stories, essays, poems, plays), and a Member of Parliament. His works, especially his short stories, are already translated into many vernacular and foreign languages.

In this book Twelve Stories (Tarjuma; 1 edition May 7, 2011), the lasting beauty of the Malayalam romantic age and the aesthetic value of twelve of Pottekkat’s short stories are brought to the readers by Dr. K. Parameswaran. The first impression that lingers in the mind of a reader after relishing these stories would be the line from Keats: “A thing of beauty is a joy forever”.

Every translation requires and demands extraordinary talent and dedication to the original work and to create a replica of an existing art work in the texture of another language needs extra care and pain. In his work of translation, Parameswaran is seen truthful to the core of the original and has succeeded in bringing up the original flavour intended by the creator of these stories. Of course, one cannot expect the same intensity of beauty and passion that one enjoys from the original language while reading the translation of any text. One can witness how the unique qualities of Pottekkat, such as element of surprise, dramatic quality, style that oscillates between realism and lyricism, social commitment, humanism, romance, and suspense are nevertheless kept intact surprisingly in these translated short stories.

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Binu George
Research Scholar
Faculty of English and Foreign Languages
Gandhigram Rural Institute-Deemed University
Dindigul
Tamilnadu
India
kakanattubinu@gmail.com
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