In Brink, SL Bhyrappa's depiction of romantic love and stream of consciousness style find a perfect translation
FirstpostA depressed, suicidal woman meets a man who eventually helps her out of her mental illness, their love eclipsing any need for a psychiatrist. But when they cannot do that, they vent their anger on the people who show affection.” With this, he set his imagination to work, crafting astoundingly real characters, their stream of consciousness displaying Bhyrappa’s acute mindfulness; every sentence falls exactly where it must, none of his characters’ thoughts escaping the writer’s pen. To fully lay down the intricacies of the characters’ minds, Bhyrappa employs a writing style where the stream of consciousness, encompassing several disjointed thoughts, runs for long spaces as one sentence. “When you’re before a Goliath like Bhyrappa, nobody would take [changes> lightly,” he adds. Then only love develops.” In the early stages of this developing love, Bhyrappa points to the certain existence of suffering, highlighting with Amrita and Somashekhar’s turbulent relationship how deeply love and pain are intertwined.