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Volume 18:1 January 2018
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Inheritance of the Themes of Alienation and Rootlessness in the Modern Writer
– A Brief Study of Arun Joshi

Mubina


Abstract

Arun Joshi’s stories often explore philosophical dimensions like an individual’s yearning to decipher the meaning of life and materialistic existence. Arun Joshi was raised by a family of eminent scholars in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. The present study aims at exploring the sense of alienation and rootlessness generated by the materialism that prevailed in the twentieth century Indian sophisticated society. Arun Joshi’s ideas, his-experience based vision of life are seen in his writings. He notices the chaos and hollowness in the mind of the contemporary younger generation, which fill them with the sense of alienation and detachment. With his deep knowledge of Indian philosophy, Joshi suggests in his novels an entirely Indian solution to the spiritual crisis of the young. The present study comprehensively examines Arun Joshi’s delineation of the commitment to life and action against passive detachment.

Keywords: Arun Joshi, Alienation, modern society, self-introspection, human predicament

Alienation

Alienation is one of the greatest problems confronting modern man. Its corrosive impact can be seen in the form of generation gap, the antiwar movement, the hippie Phenomenon, the credibility gap, the stunting of personal development, the conspicuous absence of a sense of meaningfulness of life and so on. An outstanding novelist of human predicament, Arun Joshi has built into all his four novels the inner crisis of the modern man. His novels deal more with human problems than issues arising out of regional loyalties. His condemnation of the industrial, the civilized and the materialistic world is not guided by his love of Indian philosophy or the values of sensuousness, passion and action. His techniques of self-introspection intensified by self-mockery opens a new dimension in the art of Indo-English fiction.

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Mubina, M.Phil. English
Sri Adi Chunchanagiri Women’s College
Cumbum 625 516
Tamilnadu
India

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