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{{short description|1973 Gujarati novel by Suresh Joshi}}
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| name = Maranottar
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| caption = First edition cover, 1973
| author = [[Suresh Joshi]]
| title_orig = મરણોત્તર
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| country = India
| language = [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]]
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| genre = Lyrical novel
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| pub_date = 1973
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| media_type = Print
| pages = 71 pages
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| dewey = 891.473
| congress = PK1859.J593 M3
| preceded_by = [[Chhinnapatra]] (1965)
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| external_url = https://ekatra.pressbooks.pub/marnottar/
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'''''Maranottar''''' ({{lang-gu|મરણોત્તર}}; English: Posthumous) is a [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]] novel by [[Suresh Joshi]]. It is written almost in the form of lyrical prose letter style.

== Content ==
The novel is prefaced with five different quotations, one each from [[György Lukács]], {{ill|Antonín Bartušek|cs}}, [[Malcolm Lowry]], [[W. H. Auden]] and [[Paul Valéry]]. The theme of death is presented in Lowry's quotation and the technique is suggested by Valery.

It has 45 short chapters in 71 printed pages. The chapters are built around the theme of approaching death, written with poetic imagery and ending with the poetic refrain of the name, 'Mrinal'. The novel is addressed to Mrinal, the lead female character, and some other characters like Sudhir, Gopi, Namita and Megha.<ref name="Rajan1989">{{cite book|author=P. K. Rajan|title=The Growth of the Novel in India, 1950-1980|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EK3PpQWV51MC&pg=PA73|accessdate=31 January 2017|year=1989|publisher=Abhinav Publications|location=New Delhi|isbn=978-81-7017-259-8|page=73-77}}</ref><ref name="Pañcāla2004">{{cite book|author=Śirīsha Pañcāla|authorlink=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|page=44}}</ref>

Joshi has used the techniques of an extraterrestrial narrator. The novel is narrated in [[First-person narrative|first person]].<ref name="JoshiSuhrud1998">{{cite book|author1=Suresh Hariprasad Joshi|author2=Tridip Suhrud|author2-link=Tridip Suhrud|title=Crumpled letter|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wMFjAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=31 January 2017|year=1998|publisher=Macmillan India}}</ref>

== Criticism ==
It is considered as Joshi's prominent experimental novel.<ref>{{cite book|title=Contemporary Gujarati Short Stories: An Anthology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xHRjAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=31 January 2017|date=1 January 2000|publisher=Indian Publishers Distributors|isbn=978-81-7341-129-8}}</ref> However Ila Pathak wrote that, in ''Maranottar'' as well as in his another novel ''[[Chhinnapatra]]'', the women characters appear only as the targets of men's lustful desires.<ref name="Rajan1989"/> [[K. M. George (writer)|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|author=K. M. George|title=Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology: Surveys and poems|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m1R2Pa3f7r0C&pg=PA141|year=1992|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|isbn=978-81-7201-324-0|page=141}}</ref>

== Translation ==
''Maranottar'' has been translated into [[French language|French]] as ''Temoignage Posthume'' by Sheela Karki and published in 2017.

==References==
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==External links==
* {{Internet Archive|id=in.ernet.dli.2015.537705}}
* [https://ekatra.pressbooks.pub/marnottar/ Maranottar] at Ekatra Foundation

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[[Category:Works by Suresh Joshi]]
[[Category:1973 novels]]
[[Category:Gujarati-language novels]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian novels]]
[[Category:Fiction set in the 20th century]]
[[Category:1973 Indian novels]]
[[Category:First-person narrative novels]]

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