{"id":3277,"date":"2019-09-02T18:30:11","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T13:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/?p=3277"},"modified":"2019-09-02T18:30:14","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T13:00:14","slug":"sreedevi-talkies-by-karunakaran-shaji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/sreedevi-talkies-by-karunakaran-shaji\/","title":{"rendered":"Sreedevi Talkies by Karunakaran Shaji"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>About The Book<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Indulging innocently in primeval adultery and consummate sensuality, the  rustic population of Kotta, sandwiched between ancient hills and  enchanting backwaters, perpetually trapped in the cinematic illusions of  Sreedevi Talkies; their transition to modernity was replete with  disillusionments and disasters. In a saga replete with archetypal and  mythical lore from Ulysses, Tiresias, Jesus Christ, Ancient Mariner and  Kerala&#8217;s historical tryst with Communism \u2014 the novel is a lyrical  journey into borderless territories of the unconscious, when ghosts let  out by the Talkies endlessly ensnare the rustics on the slippery paths  between reality and fantasy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1560\" height=\"2520\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/816lsE5BjBL.jpg?fit=634%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/816lsE5BjBL.jpg?w=1560&amp;ssl=1 1560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/816lsE5BjBL.jpg?resize=186%2C300&amp;ssl=1 186w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/816lsE5BjBL.jpg?resize=768%2C1241&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/816lsE5BjBL.jpg?resize=634%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 634w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/816lsE5BjBL.jpg?resize=696%2C1124&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/816lsE5BjBL.jpg?resize=1068%2C1725&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/816lsE5BjBL.jpg?resize=260%2C420&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/816lsE5BjBL.jpg?w=1392 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>About The Author<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Karunakaran Shaji teaches English Literature at RIE, Mysore. His  other books are \u2018Enchanted Aeolian Harps \u2014 Readings in English  Romanticism\u2019 and \u2018Dark Primeval Male in Thomas Hardy\u2019. He is a native of  Chengannur, Kerala.      <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button aligncenter\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.in\/Sreedevi-Talkies-Shaji-Karunakaran\/dp\/935201197X\/\">Buy Now<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About The Book Indulging innocently in primeval adultery and consummate sensuality, the rustic population of Kotta, sandwiched between ancient hills and enchanting backwaters, perpetually trapped in the cinematic illusions of Sreedevi Talkies; their transition to modernity was replete with disillusionments and disasters. In a saga replete with archetypal and mythical lore from Ulysses, Tiresias, Jesus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3279,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3277","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books"},"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/cover.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1","author_info":{"display_name":"Writing Geeks","author_link":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/author\/writinggeeks\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/cover.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6uhmH-QR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3280,"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3277\/revisions\/3280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}