Paper Title: “Muktamachh” – A Study of Its Narrative Construction
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Every literary construction is a synthesis of content and form. However, whether a construction attains the status of true artistic creation depends upon the organic integration of its content, form, and the lived truth it seeks to embody. Consequently, in literary and aesthetic criticism, equal importance is accorded not only to thematic content but also to the structural and formal dimensions of a text.
Santosh Kar’s novel Dar Jal Muktamachh was originally written in 1978. After a prolonged interval of seventeen years, it was published in print by Dighal Prakashan under the stewardship of publisher Smt. Shakuntala Khatua in 1995 (Bengali year 1402). The second edition appeared in 2018 from the same publishing house, edited by Professor Dr. Suranjan Midde. The differences between these two editions provide an important point of departure for examining the novel’s construction. Although such a comparison primarily concerns the external or material aspects of the text, it serves as an entryway into a deeper exploration of the novel’s internal architecture and artistic design.
The present study moves beyond the external features of publication history to investigate the inner mechanisms of narrative organization, structural arrangement, and artistic execution. It seeks to examine whether the author’s narrative strategies and compositional techniques successfully transform the text from a mere literary construction into a work of creative realization. Through an analysis of its narrative framework, thematic development, and formal organization, the article explores the extent to which the novel achieves aesthetic coherence and creative fulfillment.
Keywords:Content, Form, Narrative Structure, Construction, Creation.
DOI Link – https://doi.org/10.63431/AIJITR/3.III.2026.14-18
Review By – Dr. Amrita Dutta and Dr. Arijit Manna