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patriarchal family head, beats his son in childhood for wandering around in the company of his friends. He does not allow the young boy to learn to play the flute, or to perform in his school's plays. Pandurang considers his father excessively money-minded, materialistic, selfish, unscrupulous, and dictatorial. In sharp contrast to his relationship with his father, Pandurang loves his mother and his sisters dearly.
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management of the hostel mess to one of his poor friends. But, although Pandurang tries to help everyone around him, he ultimately discovers that his friends are using him. Finally, when he fails his exams badly and his financial position deteriorates, his father becomes angered by Pandurang's lifestyle. Pandurang learns a lesson: that good deeds do not count for much in life.
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unsuccessful attempts to find work in the city, ultimately Pandurang returns to his village, his mind "existentially vacant". He is now one of many unemployed youngsters of the village. As Pandurang tries to understand their views on life, their sorrows and their joys, the true meaning of life begins to dawn.
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was given a hostile reception by the Marathi establishment, both for its portrayal of the professorial class, and for its description of the profane world. But it gained an enthusiastic following among readers of the younger generation, who identified with the thinking exemplified by its protagonist.
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Pandurang is estranged from his father, and has been from childhood. Later in the novel, this estrangement develops into a major theme of the younger generation's mute revolt against the patriarchal value system characteristic of traditional Indian life. Pandurang has not found anything meaningful in
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for his higher education. He feels isolated in his new social setting, and this persistent feeling of estrangement leads him to return home. There, he encounters further disillusionment, with the death of his sister, his father's domination, and his own financial dependence. The novel aims to portray
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Pandurang is the son of a well-to-do farmer from Sangvi, a village in Khandesh. His family includes his parents, his grandmother, and his four sisters. Pandurang's relationship with his father is a difficult one, and they have been estranged since Pandurang was a boy. His father, who typifies the
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In his second year of college, Pandurang is an entirely new man, carefree and adventurous. Even his father now hesitates to ask him to mend his ways. He is shaken by the untimely death of his younger sister, Mani, but otherwise has no care for anything. In consequence, he fails his exam. After
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to attend college. While studying, Pandurang lives in a hostel. He decides to make the most of college life, and becomes the secretary of the college debating society, prefect of the hostel, and directs a play at the college Annual Day function. Out of kindness, he gives responsibility for the
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novel in Marathi literature. Since its publication, its open-ended nature and potential for varied interpretations have been viewed as ground-breaking. The novel has become a modern classic of post-1960 Marathi fiction, and has been translated into eight South Asian languages and into English.
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has been considered a trendsetter in Marathi literature, because of its open-ended quality and its potential for varied interpretation. It is the novel most widely appreciated and interpreted by a number of literary critics, including:
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At 21, Nemade had failed in his journalistic aspirations, and returned to his native village. He was rebuffed there by his father, who was disappointed that his son risked squandering an expensive education to end up being a cowherd.
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was published in September that same year by J. J. Deshmukh, who had learned of Nemade's talent and encouraged him to write during his sojourn in Bombay.
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Pandurang Sangavikar – The protagonist, and only son of a rich village farmer. His fellow hostel students call him by his nickname, Pandu.
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his experience of village life. Over a six-year period, this experience of meaninglessness repeats itself in his college life in Pune.
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technique to recount the first twenty-five years in the life of Pandurang Sangavikar, a young man of rural upbringing who moves to
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The novel heralded a new trend in Marathi literature, and other commentators hold that it received immediate critical acclaim.
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has been translated into eight Indian languages, and into English. The available translations of the novel are as follows:
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Gurjarpadhye-Khanderparkar, Prachi (July–August 2014). "Reinventing the Self: Nativist Cultural Imagination of "Kosla"".
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Pandurang's father – The head of a joint family, and a rich and respected man in his village.
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Sarang, Vilas (September–October 1992). "Tradition and Conflict in the Context of Marathi Literature".
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to narrate the journey of a young man, Pandurang Sangvikar, and his friends through his college years.
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to recount an individual's experiences, and in this exploration raises many questions regarding the
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and the value of existence. It is considered the first existential novel in Marathi literature.
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is widely regarded as both a modern classic and a ground-breaking novel which left its mark on
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Kosalabaddala : Bhalacandra Nemade Yancya Kadambarivarila Lekha, Parikshane, Tipa
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In 1963, Nemade was 25 and living in his village. Likening himself to the Hindu king
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narrates the life-story of Pandurang Sangvikar, a young man of 25, in six sections.
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Existentialism in the Selected American and Marathi Novels: a Comparative Study
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Hatkanagalekar, M.D. (November–December 1980). "Marathi: A Desirable Advance".
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After passing his local school's matriculation examination, Pandurang moves to
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Despite the novel's pessimistic undertones, an element of humour runs through
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The novel's protagonist, Pandurang, has been described as a "quintessential
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Padgaonkar, Latika (1997). "Cocoon by Bhalchandra Nemade (Book Review)".
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the spectrum of society from the viewpoint of Pandurang as a young boy.
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Suresh Bapat – Pandurang's college friend in Pune.
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The novel proved innovative, and quickly became a success. As a
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I am Pandurang Sangavikar), directed by Mandar Deshpande.
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Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: Navaratri-Sarvasena
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Giridhar – Pandurang's village friend.
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Index

Book cover of English translation
Bhalchandra Nemade
Marathi
Existentialism
alienation
Khandesh
Central India
Pune
OCLC
38258018
Cocoon
Marathi
Bhalchandra Nemade
magnum opus
Marathi literature
autobiographical form
existentialist
Bombay
Trishanku
Bildungsroman
Marathi narrative traditions
first-person narrative
Pune
Khandesh
Central India
Pune
alienation
first person point of view
meaning of life
anti-hero

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