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**Peptobismol** · 10-31-2005, 12:04 AM

Vanchi,

That quote from JJ is interesting. I'm not quite sure whether Su.Raa's subtle satire in that the tongue-in-cheek 'quotation' from Subadhramma Thangachi is not lost on the reader as it may easily be construed as Su.Raa's own statement.

And about Su.Raa's leg-pulling of authors of historical fiction - IMO, Su.Raa is not referring to Sandilyan. There is only one direct reference to historical fiction in Tamil - 'Sivagami Ammai sabadhaththai mudithu vittarkala?'

The lines quoted in this forum about JJ's coments on historical fiction may be about a handful of Malayalam novelists (of yesteryears) who had to be content with churning out stories based largely on vadakkan kathagal (vaaL, surigai, Aromal and other chegavars, angam vettudhal etc - mostly repetitive) as they had only around 300 years of Malayalam history to fall back upon, unlike ours.

Rgds,
Era.Murugan

10-31-2005, 12:04 AM	#11
Peptobismol Join Date Oct 2005 Age 58 Posts 4,386 Senior Member	Vanchi, That quote from JJ is interesting. I'm not quite sure whether Su.Raa's subtle satire in that the tongue-in-cheek 'quotation' from Subadhramma Thangachi is not lost on the reader as it may easily be construed as Su.Raa's own statement. And about Su.Raa's leg-pulling of authors of historical fiction - IMO, Su.Raa is not referring to Sandilyan. There is only one direct reference to historical fiction in Tamil - 'Sivagami Ammai sabadhaththai mudithu vittarkala?' The lines quoted in this forum about JJ's coments on historical fiction may be about a handful of Malayalam novelists (of yesteryears) who had to be content with churning out stories based largely on vadakkan kathagal (vaaL, surigai, Aromal and other chegavars, angam vettudhal etc - mostly repetitive) as they had only around 300 years of Malayalam history to fall back upon, unlike ours. Rgds, Era.Murugan
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