LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 14:2 February 2014
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
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         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
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Elements of Fantasy and Reality in Arun Joshi’s Novels:
The City and The River and The Foreigner

K. Santhi Malar

Introduction

Arun Joshi is one of the perceptive contemporary Indian English Novelists who have attempted to grapple with the predicament of modern man in their writings. Arun Joshi was born on 1939. Joshi has had a brilliant academic career. He obtained an engineering degree from the University of Kansas and a degree of Industrial Management from M.I.T., Cambridge, Massachusetts. For a brief period in 1957, he worked at a mental hospital in the United States. After returning to India in 1962, he joined DCM in a managerial capacity, on the recruitment and training side. After that he was an executive Director of the Shri Ram Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources.

Arun Joshi stands out as a highly significant novelist. He is quite different from his Indian or western counterparts, living or dead, since he has kept the novel form serious. Basically, he is a remarkable thought-provoking novelist with uncompromising propensity towards the moral and the numinous. His works read like the spiritual odyssey of twentieth-century man who has lost his spiritual moorings and is wandering aimlessly. The novelist has tried to project through experiences the crisis of the urbanized and highly industrialized modern civilization along with its dehumanizing impact on the individual who is ever eager to find out and reaffirm the value of meaningful relatedness in life.

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