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Articles: Literature | Naveen’s Ampasayya
- Dr. Rajeshwar Mittapalli
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Naveen enjoys an unassailable position as a novelist. He has a heart which responds with a surprising sensitivity. In everything he writes, especially in his novels and short stories, he packs a lot of emotion. According to an admission he wrote Ampasayya basing it on his own experiences as a university student. His own struggles, thoughts, longings, ideals, expectations, experiences, loves, jealousies and emotional outpourings form the staple of Ampasayya. In one word its hero Ravi is modeled after himself.
In the 1960s it was very rare to find a campus novel in Telugu. The few novels and short stories that did have the university campus as their background invariably described the university as a sacred place, the teachers as divine beings and the students as serious and idealistic young men and women. It never occurred to the novelists that behind the glorified façade there could be much that was rotten. It is Ampasayya which for the first time focussed on the unpleasant realities in the glorified university campuses.
Ampasayya is also the first Telugu novel to have used the stream of consciousness technique extensively, if not throughout. It depicts the life of a university student within the span of just sixteen hours. The experiences and thoughts of this student in such a short time fill three hundred and odd pages. The novel specially focuses, through the consciousness of its young hero Ravi, on certain aspects of adolescent life: the reality about universities and other educational institutions, the class ideology background and its various manifestations in student life, the clash of ideologies which compels the students to subscribe to one or the other of them, the inner struggle of a sensitive university student who hails from a middle class agricultural family specially with respect to his responsibility towards his family, and the anxiety and sexual unrest which make the world appear in very attractive light.
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