Dhakal has called the novel his dream-nightmare statement against betrayal.
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Writer Narayan Dhakal's sixth novel 'Jagajjanani Uski Akankara Naam Hoin' has been released. The book was launched on Saturday at Publication Nepalaya's Aarshala in Kalikasthan.
The book was launched after Dhakal gifted the book to his granddaughter Riti Dhakal and grandson Riwaj Dhakal.
At the launch event, Dhakal recounted his five-decade-long literary journey. Narrating the story of how he wrote a spy novel as a teenager and submitted it to a publisher but it was not published, Dhakal recalled the early days of his reading journey, 'After that, I started reading and reading like crazy, searching for famous writers in the world. My addiction is still the same.'
Dhakal said that the writer within him is gradually awakening through the habit of reading books hidden in the bus, toilet, college, and at home. Recalling that he was scattered in various genres and movements in his life, he said, ‘I started searching for the dream of life in the streets of Jhochhe, in the Kuiri Mandal of Shivdhuwan, and I became a worker of the banned Communist Party.’ Dhakal said that the unstable life of various events and modes such as student movements, teachers’ movements, prison journeys, journalism, parliamentarians, Hungry Generation, became his literary food.
Dhakal interprets literature not only as a blank sentimentality but also as questions and commitments towards politics, history, economics, and society. Dhakal called the novel ‘Jagajjanani Uski Akankara Naam Hoin’ his dream-nightmare statement against betrayal.
Bimal Acharya, editor of Nepalaya, said that Dhakal published the novel because Dhakal’s manuscript corrupted his mind and cleansed his heart. ‘I found a democratic culture of listening to criticism and innovation in Narayan Dhakal, a writer who is extremely ruthless towards himself and extremely confident in his writing,’ he said. ‘Jagajjanani is not his mother’s name, but a name that can be forgotten in the history of Nepali novels.’
Dhakal’s literary journey has been 52 years since his first story was published in 2030. Dhakal has published six novels, seven collections of stories, three collections of essays, two collections of children’s stories, and one collection of poetry.
‘Our novel journey, which began with Narayan Wagle, has reached Narayan Dhakal,’ said Kiran Krishna Shrestha, team leader of Nepalaya. ‘In this 21 year of the publishing journey, we are also soon publishing stories, poems, and essays by 75 new writers of the 21st century.’
