The novel is prefaced with five different quotations, one each from György Lukács, Antonín Bartušek [cs], Malcolm Lowry, W. H. Auden and Paul Valéry.

The theme of death is presented in Lowry's quotation and the technique is suggested by Valery.

[4] However Ila Pathak wrote that, in Maranottar as well as in his another novel Chhinnapatra, the women characters appear only as the targets of men's lustful desires.

[1] K. M. George considers it as an intended anti-novel which ended up only as an experiment difficult to read or comprehend.

[5] Maranottar has been translated into French as Temoignage Posthume by Sheela Karki and published in 2017.