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Articles: Literature | Naveen’s Ampasayya
- Dr. Rajeshwar Mittapalli
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In terms of technique Ampasayya is a uniquely experimental novel. Although the stream of consciousness technique is to be found in a rudimentary shape in Sri Sri’s Konetirao Kathalu, Ra.Vi.Sastri’s Alpajeevi and Buchibabu’s short story “Chaitanya Sravanthi” it is in Ampasayya that the technique has been used most successfully. But a close examination of the novel would reveal that the technique has not been used throughout like in James Joyce’s Ulysses or in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse. In Ampasayya this technique has been used sporadically in the first ten pages, last five pages and in between in the monologues of the hero Ravi and not elsewhere especially in the important episodes which move the story forward.
Thus, in the hundreds of pages in which Ravi discusses with his friends the politics of the day, studies and other matters, the flashback in which he recalls his meeting with lecturer Upendra, the Kiranmayi episode and the experiences with her during the tour, his recounting of Ratti’s pitiable story and his own role in her fall from grace have all been rendered in the third person without the usual paraphernalia attendant on the stream of consciousness technique. But in etching the character of Ravi and in describing the various disparate forces acting upon his psyche Naveen uses a number of narrative techniques one flowing into another according to the demands of the context and maintains the forward momentum of the story and gives us in the process the feeling of a flow that cannot be bound.
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