Synopsis
This epic poem reveals postmodern tendencies with that of Walt Whitman, John Asbery, Sylvia Plath, Gary Snyder, Reeta Dove of America, W.H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes, Michael Ondaatje, Margaret Atwood and Paul Muldoon. The speaker in the poem tries to free himself from the postmodern world in "The Departure of Time," tries to locate certainty in flux, decision in indecision. After "Declaration of a New God," "Proposal for a New World" looks to the post - postmodern tendency with that of Serbian Nikola Kitanovic, Italian Umberto Saba and American experimental poet Robert Lax. The epic lambastes the vices and underscores the peace and humanity in the world the poet proposes.
About the Author
Gopal Parajuli, born in Koteshwar, Kathmandu on 17 December 1950, earned his primary education from Guheshwari School, Sinamangal. Passing out from there after an extensive participation in children's literary meets, poetic recitals and symposiums, he entered the Padomodya High School for his matriculation. There, while in the eighth grade, he won a prize for his essay "Nepali pan." Seeing that the world was divided into two poles, he wrote the one-act play The Two Extremes in1980, which brought him into the limelight. Unable to bear the shock of his mother Thir Kumari's death following a heart-attack, he wrote The Mother Figure, an epic commemoratinghis mother. Though admitted to a college, he did not attend regular classes fora few years; rather, he started a school in Sinamangal, and chose to teach voluntarily. As a college student, he took the training of the National Cadet Corps in 1965. He took up boxing. This coy youth, a vegetarian and teetotaler,ascended the boxing ring many a time. Selected for the post of Second Lieutenantin the National Corps, he did not discard pen, and did not choose to be a soldier. Though entangled in domestic politics, he did not shun pen, and never wrote of domestic affairs. Despite his in well-off family, his ailing father suffered for want of money for treatment, so he took up the job of editing Garima, a literary monthly. In 2003, he wrote Declaration of a New God, a work intolerable to the opponents, and kissed the summits of popularity winning Nepal's post prestigious literary award, Madan Puraskar. Believing that the world would read it one day, he set out to publish yet another epic Arko Vishwako Prastaav in 2012, whose English version titled Proposal for a New World has come out in the present form.
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