page_title: Suresh Joshi
section_title: Style
hierarchical_section_title: Suresh Joshi / Style
caption_attribution_description: English: Gujarati writers Suresh Joshi at the age of 45, Vadodara, Gujarat
context_page_description: Suresh Hariprasad Joshi was an Indian novelist, short-story writer, literary critic, poet, translator, editor and academic in the Gujarati language. Along with his teaching career, he led the modernist movement in Gujarati literature. He was prolific writer and he transformed the field of literary criticism.
context_section_description: A strong opponent of romantic tendencies in literature, Joshi influenced many up-and-coming writers in the 1960s and 1970s. His personal essays "are said to have introduced a new prose style in Gujarati literature," according to Gujarati scholar Sarala Jag Mohan. He was influenced by efforts of experimentation in western literature.
  He was one of the chief exponents of experimentalist poetry in Gujarati, primarily through his literary criticism, rather than his poems. Under his influence, form, technique and structure became far more important considerations within Gujarati poetry. The torments of the individual and literary craftsmanship became more highly esteemed, but intelligibility, lyricism and musicality were valued less, as were social concerns of the writer and even the contents of the work, according to Deepak B. Mehta.
  Existentialism and phenomenology were prime interests of his.
caption: Joshi at the age of 45, Vadodara
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