Guruprasad Mainali

 

 

Guruprasad Mainali is a storyteller who started the modern era in Nepali fiction. v. No. Mainali's Naso Katha published in Sarada Pratrika in 1992 marked the beginning of a new era in Nepali fiction. Through his Naso story, idealistic realist stream was born in Nepali fiction. Mainali's Naso (Katha Sangrah, 2020), who gained a lot of fame by writing little, has a total of 11 stories. Ghodasaini (2077) has classified Mainali's stories, which succeeded in providing an epoch-making change in Nepali literature, on the basis of narrative characteristics as follows:

a. Idealistic Stories: Naso, Neighbor, Consequences of Sin, Martyrdom, Return and Duty

b. Love problematic idealistic stories of atonement, holidays and bonfires

c. Social realist stories like straw fire and wretched

narrative tendency

To print the real events of the lower and middle class people's lives by taking notes and printing them.

Taking idealism at the beginning of the story and making idealism the main basis at the end,

Presenting the conservative traditions, superstitions, bad practices, illiteracy, gender discrimination, caste oppression etc. of the then Nepali society with artistic expression,

To portray realistically the social distortions and disharmony of rural and urban life,

Present various aspects of social, economic, cultural life with ease:

Effectively inaugurating the ups and downs of children, young middle-aged and elderly people,

Enliven the activities of selfish, unresponsive, immature, disorderly people through Sridhara, Govinda, Narendra etc.,

By showing the conflict between the old generation and the new generation, even if it is a bad act, by showing the victory of the new generation under the guise of power, showing the victory of the patient person in the end (as an example, the duty story can be taken),

Skillfully combining psychoanalysis with humor on the ground of reality,

Using simple linear patterns in external point of view and plot;

Use of proverbs, proverbs as well as simple, simple language style and closed structure.