A Study of Narrative Structures in The Novel Duryodhana by V. Raghunathan
- Country : India
- Subject : English
Keywords : narrative, narratology, Duryodhana, Mahabharata, mythology, Raghunathan
Abstract
Every story, novel, poem or essay is a form of narration. The activity of narration isn’t specific to various genres of literature. We can notice it in different forms of reports, accounts and articles as well. In fictional writings, selecting a proper manner to tell the story is not less important than the story itself. The present paper not only studies certain structures but also how they are employed in the novel Duryodhana (2014) written by Vishwanathan Raghunathan. V. RAghunathan is a Tamilian. He was born in Ambala, Haryana in 1954 and completed most of his schooling at Jammu and Kashmir. He graduated from Panjab University, Chandigarh and received his doctorate in finance from IIM, Calcutta. He taught finance at Indian Institute of Management, Ahmadabad for almost two decades. He has been president of ING Vyasa Bank from 2001 to 2004. Currently he is CEO of GMR Varalakshmi Foundation since 2005. He writes columns for The Economic Times and The Times of India. He has also been an adjunct professor at Bocconi University, Milan, Italy and at Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada. Duryodhana attempts to retell The Mahabharata from Duryodhana’s point of view. Duryodhana is the narrator of the text and he declares that he is inspired in this venture by his friend Karna who retold his story in Shivaji Sawant’s Mrityunjaya. He begins the story from a brief introduction of his ancestors. He is not happy with the fact that for ages he is painted in black, while there was grey shade to both the parties involved in the battle of Mahabharata.
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