Re: nava navalaa(DE) ....
V. Chowdary Jampala (cjampala@quark.dayton.net)
Tue, 22 Jul 1997 21:09:31 -0400 (EDT)
On Tue, 22 Jul 1997, Padma Indraganti wrote:
>
> > lalithadEvi is a pseudonym for a male writer with the same last
> > name. Wasn't vishNumaaya first published in aandhrajyOti?
>
> I believe jonnalagaDDa lalitA dEvi, the author of "vishNu mAya" is
> indeed
> her real name.
I remember a conversation from a long time ago with a publisher
friend in which he told me that the author of vishNumaaya was a male.
However, I do realize that my memory is not what it used to be :(
> To compare and contrast YV's and YSR's style, one has to read "prEma".
> (a thick
> "golusu navala", by YV, YSR and vennelakaMTi vasaMtasEna (any relation
> to the
> poet and song writer vennelakaMTi rAjESwarI prasAd?). I felt that
> vasaMtasEna's
> part of the novel was the best among the three. Did she write anything
> after
> that? btw, are there #golusu navalau# in English??
prEma is not really a golusu navala; it was three writers writing
a novel with the same theme. (to me, a golusu navala is where one writer
picks up where another left: the ones I remember in Telugu are
palle-paTnam and idiyaT).
Again, from another conversation (the authenticity of this I
can't vouch for): vasantasEna is a pseudonym maybe for YV himself.
Incidentally, the last decade Telugu saw the rise of the phenomenon of
ghost writers - anonymous authors that write in the name of big name
authors. The latter employ these ghost writers. YSR never needed them :)
Regards -- V. Chowdary Jampala