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Pathummayude Aadu is the only major Basheer work that was published without any revisions from the original manuscript. It was written in 1954 during Basheer's first period of insanity, when he was institutionalised at a mental Sanatorium at Thrissur.
His next novel was Pathummayude Aadu, an autobiographical work published in 1959, featuring mostly his family members. [35] The book tells the story of everyday life in a Muslim family. [36] Mathilukal (Walls) deals with prison life in the pre-independence days. It is a novel of sad irony set against a turbulent political backdrop.
P. Kesava Pillai (20 July 1904 – 1 July 1983), better known by his pen-name P. Kesavadev, was a novelist and social reformer of Kerala, India.He is remembered for his speeches, autobiographies, novels, dramas, short stories, and films.
Paleri Manikyam: Oru Pathirakolapathakathinte Katha is a Malayalam-language mystery novel by T. P. Rajeevan (Thachom Poyil Rajeevan). [1] It was originally serialised in Mathrubhumi Weekly and was published as a book by Current Books.
Viddikalude Swargam (Fool's Paradise) is a Malayalam short story collection by Vaikom Muhammad Basheer published in 1948. The book is one of the best acknowledged works of Basheer and is considered a modern Malayalam classic. [1] [2]
"Poovan Pazham" (Malayalam: പൂവൻപഴം; English: Poovan Banana) is a short story written by Vaikom Muhammad Basheer and published in 1948 in the collection Viddikalude Swargam (Fool's Paradise). It is one of the most popular of Basheer's stories. [1] [2] [3] It was adapted into a telefilm of the same name by P. Balachandran.
The theme of the novel, focuses on the love between Basheer, a prisoner, and a female inmate of the prison, who remains unseen throughout the novel. [4] In Mathilukal, though the broad frame is autobiographical and the narration is first person, the details seem to contain sprinkles of fantasy.
The story is a socio-political satire about an illiterate cook whose nose starts to grow from the day he turns 24. The nose grows like an elephant's trunk. The poor cook becomes rich in no time and starts to give opinions on national and international matters. The story expands on the complications arising from the long nose of the ordinary man.