THEME OF ALIENATION IN ARUN JOSHI'S THE FOREIGNER

Authors

  • Poonam Yadav Research Scholar Sunrise University, Alwar (Lecturer, Govt. College, Kanwali)

Keywords:

Alienation, rootlessness and quest for identity

Abstract

Arun Joshi is the most outstanding sensitive and thought-provoking novelist. He is quite an exceptional novelist who stands apart from the rest of the novelists, who has taken up the themes of human behaviour. The present study will centre around the theme of alienation in Joshi's first novel "The Foreigner". Joshi's  novels are branded as theme of fretfulness, alienation and existentialism.

            The principle concern is to study the sense of alienation that intimidates to crush the every sphere of life. Discussing the theme of Alienation in Arun Joshi's novels, its mainly concerned with man's alienation from his own self, from the society

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2015-07-31

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Vol. 4 No. 8 (2015): JULY 2015

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