Fragmented Narration in Corridor’s Thematic, Language and Imagery

Abstract

One of the country’s most renowned graphic novel artists, Mr. Banerjee, has published Corridor, a fragmented micro-story, injecting one or more small stories within the body of a larger story at various levels within the text including thematics, language, and imagery. India’s first graphic novel, Corridor, was astronomically different from anything published earlier in India. It targeted the astute, well-read reader with a meandering plot and kitschy observations of life in India’s astronomically immense cities. The process offilling the gaps in the multiple and fragmented conversations reflectsthe role readers are invited to play throughout the novel on the microscopic level. Francis McKee, the director of the Glascow-based Centre for Contemporary Arts, remarks about Sarnath’s work at an exhibition that digs into India’s changes. He added that the artist explores the country ‘s transformation, looking at the losses suffered in terms of intimacy and tradition, the rise in aspects like conspicuous wealth, consumption, etc., and the evolution of newer ways of life. The term narration describes how stories are told and how their material is selected and arranged to achieve particular effects on their audiences. The narration is either authentic or mendacious in which truth and falsity are arduous to tell.