Sila Nerangalil Sila Manithargal- Jayakanthan's Expression in the Novel

Abstract

In 1970, Jayakanthan authored the novel ‘Sila Nerangalil Sila Manithargal’, which won the Sahitya Academy Award for the year 1972. He was born in the year 1934 in an agricultural family in Manjakuppam, Cuddalore, Tennarkadu district. He has made a special place for himself in the world of literature. Every novelist creates work in his own style. Good diction should carry the reader to the end of the novel without boring them. The idiom that takes the readers like that is found in Jayakanthan's novel. The novel Sila Nerangalil Sila Manithargal is a sequel to the short story 'Agnipravesam'. As a sequel to this novel, he composed the novel 'Gangai Enge Pokiral'. But in the novels Sila Nerangalil Sila Manithargal and Gangai Enge Pokiral, he has used the language of people belonging to a particular race and a particular place. Jayakanthan has written considering the sentiments of the readers. Readers always belong to a certain period. Because he has to speak to the emotions of the audience, Jayakanthan's language in the novel Sila Nerangalil Sila Manithargal is a mixture of Tamil, English, Sanskrit and Chennai dialect.