Montage from readers’ perspective :

Montage demands transformation in literary practice

Montage, I believe, demands a transformation of literary practice which is obsolete and has been prevailed for decades in our country. The enthusiastic endeavor of those two young journalists cum creative writers, Indeewara Thilakarathne and Ranga Chandrarathne , from the perspective of their vision of art, to furnish comprehensive account of literary theory, modern as well as post-modern, is highly esteemed by art loving readership of the Sunday observer.

It is important to note that such a project, being launched by a news paper in which they attempt to popularise the literary theory, should not let to be vanished in over simplifications. The laureates like Prof. Wimal Dissanayaka are chosen, in this project I believe not to vulgarise the subject.

Montage has in fact gained its own identity and is free of being in grip of old theory. The antiquated theorists in literature who are enslaved in viewing of things, in my view, are hardly allowed into this feature. I wish montage may consummate its aim of placing literature in radical reorganisation of a literary society and in which new concepts of creativity may flourish.

Saman Wickramaarachchi