LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 13:12 December 2013
ISSN 1930-2940

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Quest for Self-Fulfillment in Vikram Seth’s Novels
The Golden Gate and A Suitable Boy

N. B. Jayabharathi, M.A., M.Phil., B.Ed.

Abstract

This paper presents a summation of my M.Phil. Dissertation with the title Quest for Self-fulfillment in The Golden Gate and A Suitable Boy. consists of five chapters. The first chapter gives a bio-critical introduction and the valuable literary output of the novelist Vikram Seth. In order to acknowledge and define influences on Vikram Seth’s art and his vision some major trends in Indian writing in English upto to 21st century have been traced and outlined. An attempt has been made in the chapters to examine how Vikram Seth’s novel The Golden Gate registers the increasing importance of life in the modern world. After the critical analysis of Vikram Seth’s imagination in The Golden Gate, the chapters proceed to focus in particular on his representation of the crisis in post colonial India in A Suitable Boy.

Vikram Seth: A Significant Indian Novelist

Vikram Seth is one of the most significant Indian novelists of today. He has given a new dimension and depth to the novel by using the sonnet form for the narrative purpose. Although he is Indian by birth, by life style he is diasporic. He stands as a new comer in the stream of Indo English literature. He has made significant contribution to enrich Indian English novel with respect to both theme and techniques.

Variety of Themes

The originality in Vikram Seth’s works and the language style he employs established him as a major writer of our times. He is now seen as one of the most powerful modern novelists in English. He has written extensively on political issues. There is a compelling lucidity and simplicity in his writing which is a hall mark of a great writer. It is difficult to imagine many contemporary writers who could write a novel that gives so much satisfaction. He has succeeded in bringing the characters so fully to life.

It is certainly true that Seth has undertaken no mean task in trying to distill something original from a subject that is almost by definition generic and sentimental. It is to his great credit that despite the occasional lapse, he answers the challenge with a convincing and beautiful story of passion. In an interview he says, “I would be bored unless I wrote a book that in some sense was a challenge” (Punekar 86).

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