Around the World and Across Centuries with Francis Itty Cora

Abstract

T.D. Ramakrishnan is an Indian novelist who writes in Malayalam, the official language of Kerala, the south western coastal state of India. T.D Ramakrishnan shot to fame with his works Francis Itty Cora, Sugandhi Enna Andal Devanayaki and Alpha. His works have received worldwide acclaim recently owing to its English translations. Needless to say, they are listed as bestsellers!! He has been endowed with the prestigious Vayalar Award and Kerala Sahitya Academy Award. T.D. Ramakrishnan’s Francis Itty Cora unravels itself as a postmodern novel as it offers multiple discourses on a variety of topics as he takes the readers across centuries, continents and diverse realms of knowledge and thought. This paper focuses on the play of multiple spaces and time spans that emerge and re-emerge as the narrative unfolds the story of Francis Ittycora.