M. G. Suresh’s Experimental Attempts and Humorous Novels

எம்.ஜி. சுரேஷின் சோதனை முயற்சிகளும் ஜாலியான நாவல்களும்

Abstract

When Thi. Janakiraman passed away in 1982, only a small announcement—just enough to fit in one’s palm—was published in the Dinamani newspaper. Later, a few condolence notes appeared in some small magazines, each only a few sentences long, released weeks or even months after his death. Today, however, the situation has changed: detailed information about a deceased writer is instantly published on websites such as Facebook, along with other print and digital media. Newspapers that never published a single critical article about a writer’s works while he was alive, upon his death, rush to print emotional pieces lamenting, “Oh no… a great mountain has fallen.” Well, let it be. The words of Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa—“To speak about a creator, his creations alone are enough”—always linger in my mind.