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	'''''Chhinnapatra''''' ({{audio\|Chhinnapatra.ogg\|<small>pronunciation</small>\|help=yes}}) ({{lang-gu\|છિન્નપત્ર}}, English: Crumpled letter) is a 1965 [[Gujarati language\|Gujarati]] novel by [[Suresh Joshi]]. The novel is composed in the form of letters written by protagonist Ajay, a creative writer. Considered to be a lyrical novel, it uses [[stream of consciousness]] technique.		'''''Chhinnapatra''''' ({{audio\|Chhinnapatra.ogg\|<small>pronunciation</small>\|help=yes}}) ({{lang-gu\|છિન્નપત્ર}}, English: Crumpled letter) is a 1965 [[Gujarati language\|Gujarati]] novel by [[Suresh Joshi]]. The novel is composed in the form of letters written by protagonist Ajay, a creative writer. Considered to be a lyrical novel, it uses [[stream of consciousness]] technique.

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{{short description|1965 Gujarati novel by Suresh Joshi}}
{{Infobox book
| italic title = 
| name = Chhinnapatra
| image = Crumpled Letter cover.jpg
| image_size =
| alt = Cover page of English translation published in 1998
| caption = Cover page of English translation, 1998
| author = [[Suresh Joshi]]
| title_orig = છિન્નપત્ર
| orig_lang_code = gu
| translator = [[Tridip Suhrud]]
| illustrator =
| cover_artist = [[Bhupen Khakhar]]
| country = India
| language = [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]]
| series =
| release_number =
| subject =
| genre = Lyrical novel
| set_in =
| publisher = Parshva Publication (Gujarati ed.)
| publisher2 = Macmillan India (English ed.)
| pub_date = 1965
| english_pub_date = 1998
| published =
| media_type = Print
| pages = 122 pages (Gujarati ed.)<br/>
83 pages (English ed.)
| awards =
| isbn = 978-0-333-93188-2
| isbn_note = Eng. ed.
| oclc = 41532391
| dewey = 891.473
| congress = PK1859.J593
| preceded_by =
| followed_by =[[Maranottar]] (1973)
| notes =
| exclude_cover =
}}
'''''Chhinnapatra''''' ({{audio|Chhinnapatra.ogg|<small>pronunciation</small>|help=yes}}) ({{lang-gu|છિન્નપત્ર}}, English: Crumpled letter) is a 1965 [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]] novel by [[Suresh Joshi]]. The novel is composed in the form of letters written by protagonist Ajay, a creative writer. Considered to be a lyrical novel, it uses [[stream of consciousness]] technique.

== Background ==
Joshi published ''Chhinnnapatra'' in 1965. In its wake, [[Shrikant Shah]], [[Madhu Rye]], [[Chandrakant Bakshi]], [[Radheshyam Sharma]] and [[Mukund Parikh]] published their experimental novels ''Asti'' (1966), ''Chahera'' (1966), ''[[Paralysis (novel)|Paralysis]]'' (1967), ''[[Fero (novel)|Fero]]'' (1968) and ''Mahabhinishkraman'' (1968) respectively.<ref>{{cite news|title=The Illustrated Weekly of India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V7gnAQAAIAAJ|volume=101|issue=4|year=1980|newspaper=Times of India|page=35|oclc=6772824}}</ref> The first edition of the novel was published with the subtitle 'a rough draft of an intended novel' but it was dropped from the second edition.<ref name="Panchal2004">{{cite book|last=Panchal |first=Shirish|author-link=Shirish Panchal|title=Suresh Joshi|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6AMOIkTYkOQC&pg=PA44|year=2004|publisher=[[Sahitya Akademi]]|location=New Delhi|isbn=978-81-260-1922-9|pages=40–41}}</ref>

== Synopsis ==
Ajay, the protagonist, is a creative writer with a deep sensitivity, and loves Mala. Mala's friend Lila loves Ajay. There are other young men Amal, Arun, Ashok aspiring for the hands of Mala. After the death of Ajay, Mala found a diary written by Ajay. Mala passed through the diary during the train journey.

The novel is divided into two sections: the first section contains the diary of Ajay and it uses [[first-person narrative]] technique, while the second part is an [[epilogue]] written with omniscient point of view with Mala as the protagonist.<ref name="Panchal2004"/>

== Theme and style ==
Joshi clarified in an interview that we long for [[love]] in the world we live in. But the system of the world makes love impossible and that is the theme of this novel.<ref name="Mehta1998">{{cite book|last=Mehta|first=Bharat|title=વિવેચનપૂર્વક|trans-title=Critical Articles on Theoritical Points and Practical Criticism of Gujarati Literature|year=1998|publisher=Parshva Publication|publication-place=Ahmedabad|language=gu|page=176|oclc=41412209}}</ref>

Chhinnapatra literally means the "torn pages" in Gujarati. As the title indicates, this is a collection of the torn pages of a scrapbook. Contains fifty pages, the scrapbook belongs to Ajay who has written it. The inner reality of his being is presented here through his understanding of himself, his love for Mala, and a few other persons. The complexity of his love, the nuances of his emotion, the pangs of his agony are all depicted here with the help of images and symbols. The appendix of scrapbook explains past as a flashback and ends novel.<ref name="Rajan1989">{{cite book|last=Rajan|first=P. K.|title=The Growth of the Novel in India, 1950-1980|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EK3PpQWV51MC&pg=PA72|year=1989|publisher=Abhinav Publications|location=New Delhi|isbn=978-81-7017-259-8|pages=72–73}}</ref> Joshi intended to present the complex state of minds of his characters and hence, as critic [[Shirish Panchal]] noted, it becomes a lyrical novel full of poetic images and symbolic allusions.<ref name="Panchal2004"/>

== Reception and criticism ==
''Chhinnapatra'' was translated into English as ''Crumpled Letter'' by [[Tridip Suhrud]] in 1998.<ref name="Jolly2013">{{cite book|author=Margaretta Jolly|title=Encyclopedia of Life Writing: Autobiographical and Biographical Forms|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pedJAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA1087|date=4 December 2013|publisher=[[Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers]]|location=London|isbn=978-1-136-78744-7|page=1087}}</ref>

Joshi has himself considered it as a "a draft of novel" instead of novel. So it rejects conventional canon of novel writing. Two of the critics{{who|date=January 2017}} have said that the depiction of the characters in this novel is '[[Phenomenology (psychology)|phenomenological]]'.<ref name="Rajan1989"/> [[Shirish Panchal]] wrote that, among Joshi's longer works of fiction ''Chhinnapatra'' deserves a special mention. He added that with ''Chhinnapatra'', Joshi endeavored to take Gujarati novel away from stagnancy an self-complacency.<ref name="Panchal2004"/> [[Aniruddh Brahmabhatt]] wrote that, this type of modern novel has negated the age old concept that a novel can't survive out of its social milieu.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Parekh |first=Dhwanil |author-link=Dhwanil Parekh |date=September–October 2012 |title=અનિરુદ્ધ બ્રહ્મભટ્ટ કૃત 'અન્વીક્ષા'- એક અભ્યાસ |url=http://www.sahityasetu.co.in/issue11/dhvnil.html |journal=Sahityasetu: A literary e-journal|issue=5 |issn=2249-2372 |access-date= 27 January 2017}}</ref> K. M. George considers it as an intended [[anti-novel]] which ended up only as an experiment difficult to read or comprehend.<ref name="George1992">{{cite book|editor-last=George|editor-first=K. M.|editor-link=K. M. George (writer)|title=Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology: Surveys and poems|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m1R2Pa3f7r0C&pg=PA141|year=1992|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|publication-place=New Delhi|isbn=978-81-7201-324-0|page=141}}</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}

== External links ==
* [https://ekatra.pressbooks.pub/chinnpatra/ Chhinnapatra] at Ekatra Foundation
* {{Google Books|id=wMFjAAAAMAAJ}} (English translation)

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[[Category:Gujarati-language novels]]
[[Category:Fiction set in the 20th century]]
[[Category:Epistolary novels]]
[[Category:1965 Indian novels]]
[[Category:Stream of consciousness novels]]

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