LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 19:10 October 2019
ISSN 1930-2940

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Arun Joshi’s Art and Skill:
Depicting East and West and Tradition and Modernity

Dr. C. Ramya, M.B.A., M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.


Arun Joshi (1939-1993)
Courtesy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arun_Joshi

Abstract

This paper is an attempt to portray Arun Joshi’s fictional art and skill as it depicts the blend of East and West, tradition and modernity. This paper brings out Arun Joshi’s technique of amalgamating the past and present, the real and mythical and tradition and modernity through his characters. Thus, through various instances, this paper presents Arun Joshi as a novelist gifted with the power of depicting the blend of two extremes at a place.

Keywords: Arun Joshi, The Foreigner, The Last Labyrinth, Depiction of East and West, Tradition and Modernity, Amalgamation

Arun Joshi, one of the leading novelists in Indian English fiction, is seen to have established himself as a prominent Indian English novelist through his consistent commitment to handling the theme of alienation dexterously though he has published only four novels and a collection of short stories. Each novel is an extension of the earlier one with increased maturity, clarity and depth. Against the individual, civilized and materialistic world, he prefers a life led by the primitive codes of faith, passion and sensuousness. There is an amalgamation of the past and the present, the real and the mythical, unfurling for the reader a new reading experience. While Nayantara Sahgal and Anita Desai’s fiction are crises born out of marital discord, arising out of lack of understanding between man and woman, Joshi disentangles the multifarious facets of the crisis in an individual’s psychic world. In the words of Mani Meitei, “Joshi is deeply disturbed when he sees the degradation of man as a result of the dominance of sterile intellect over the inner strength of life” (The Quest 12).

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Dr. C. Ramya, M.B.A., M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of English
E. M. G. Yadava College for Women
Madurai – 625 014
Tamil Nadu, India
rramyachelliah@gmail.com
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