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{{short description|1979 Gujarati novel by Radheshyam Sharma}}
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| author = [[Radheshyam Sharma]]
| title_orig = સ્વપ્નતીર્થ
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| country = India
| language = [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]]
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| genre = novel
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| publisher = R. R. Sheth & Co., [[Mumbai]]
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| published = 1979
| media_type = Print
| pages = 174
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| oclc = 5945871
| dewey = 891.473
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| preceded_by = [[Fero (novel)|Fero]] (1968)
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'''Swapnatirtha''' ({{langx|gu|સ્વપ્નતીર્થ}}) is a Gujarati novel by [[Radheshyam Sharma]]. It was published in 1979 and made a great impact on [[Gujarati literature|Gujarati novels]].<ref>{{cite book|location=New Delhi|title=Indian Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TXNjAAAAMAAJ|access-date=7 February 2017|volume=27|year=1984|publisher=[[Sahitya Akademi]]|page=74}}</ref>

== Characters ==
* Navin - a young adolescent gullible boy
* Shanta - Navin's mother
* Vinayak kaka - Navin's uncle
* Ghanshyamlalji Maharaj - a [[Hindu priest]]
* Bhalubhai Sanghvi and Sohanbhai - two persons of pilgrimage with whom Navin gets [[Homosexuality|homosexual relationship]]

== Plot ==
It is the story of an adolescent gullible boy Navin who being a religious one, pilgrims with a congregation on foot to a shrine of [[Vaishnavism|Vaishnava]] cult. His father Mathurdas's death is doubtful and his mother Shanta is illicitly connected with another two persons, first is his uncle Vinayak kaka, who visit their home frequently and second is Dharmaguru Ghanshyam Maharaj. These are the essential elements that interlace the plot of father-son relationship in the end. A dream follows the descriptions of each day in the diary.<ref name=CT>{{cite journal |last=Topiwala |first=Chandrakant |author-link=Chandrakant Topiwala |date=November–December 1980 |title= Gujarati: The Dominance of Poetry|jstor=23330254|journal= Indian Literature |volume= 23 |issue=–6 |pages=11 }}</ref><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=PA75|access-date=15 February 2017|year=1989|publisher=Abhinav Publications|location=New Delhi|isbn=978-81-7017-259-8|page=75}}</ref>

==Format==
The novel runs on three levels: the subtle voice of the narrator, image-full dream sequence of the young boy and the flat monotonous repetitive and school-age tone of his diary.<ref name=CT/><ref name="Rajan1989"/> The techniques of [[dream sequence]] and [[dream vision]] are used in this novel.<ref name=st>{{cite thesis |last=Talpada |first=Hasit |title=Aadhunik Navalkathanu Gadhya Ek Abhyas Suresh Joshi Madhuray Ravji Patel Radheshyam Sharma ni Mukhya Navalo ne Aadhare |chapter=Chapter 3: Radheshyam Sharmani Navalkathanu Gadya |publisher=Sardar Patel University |url=http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/98020/7/07_chapter%203.pdf |access-date=27 February 2017|hdl=10603/98020}}</ref>
The prose of the novel is rough and boring.<ref name=sw>{{cite thesis |last=Trivedi |first=Rajeshkumar |date=18 August 2015 |title=Jyotish Jani Mukund Parikh Shrikant Shah ane Radheshyam Sharmani navalkathaoni technic ange navalkathana swaroopho vikash ek adhyayan |type=Ph.D |chapter=Chapter 6: Navalkathakar Radheshyam Sharman|publisher=Gujarat University |url=http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/47949/8/08_chapter%206.pdf |access-date=27 February 2017|hdl=10603/47949}}</ref>

== Criticism ==
[[Jayant Gadit]] wrote that, the novel does not gives us the complete story but it centered around the consciousness of Navin, a main protagonist of the novel. [[Pravin Darji]] noted this novel for its prominent prose.<ref name=st/>

==References==
{{reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{Google Books|id=cdAyHAAACAAJ}}

[[Category:Gujarati-language novels]]
[[Category:Novels set in the 20th century]]
[[Category:Existentialist novels]]
[[Category:Modernist novels]]
[[Category:1979 Indian novels]]
[[Category:Novels about dreams]]

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