Re: About amaraavati kathalu - 1

Nyayapathi Srinivasa Rao (vasu@india.hp.com)
Fri, 21 Nov 97 12:22:42 IST


Sree SRK writes:
Sree SRK writes:

> Amaravati Kathalu are not just stories or sketches made up for filling
> pages or getting name. I am sure the author 'experienced' every bit of
> what he wrote, many writers any way do so, BUT any one who read will
> also EXPERIENCE the same as the author. This alone makes them memorable
> master pieces of modern (recent) telugu literature. 

I respect your opinions, tastes and judgment.

>       I request Sri Vasu or who ever did not have a possitive view of
> Amaravathi kathalu to read them in their house, where ever they may be
> again. If they come back and tell me that they have not 'seen' and
> 'felt' the places and feeling respectively that the author portryed in
> the stories, then I will agree that the author failed in part. 

Thanks for your suggestion. It often happens to all that a 
rereading (of somebody's works) after a longtime effects a 
change in our opinions. Maybe because we have grown up, mellowed.

I don't know why my not holding the stories in as high an esteem
as many of you do matters much to anybody.

I know quite a few literary giants like them (the stories).
Puranam Subrahmany Sarma garu thought they are one of the best
in Telugu.

But i don't think so.
I have said why i don't think they are great.

Please note that i only said they were overrated, not bad!
Some of them are good.

Though i am prepared to read them again, this doesn't seem
to me much will change with me.
I will talk about the stories after i read them again.

> 
> - Srinivasa Rao Kalasapudi.
> 

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Regards & Thanks
Vasu.