The purpose of this paper is to flash- light the social realities reflected in the novels of Anita Desai and Kiran Desai. Anita Desai was the one novelist who concentrates more on the exploration of modern Indian sensibility. She observes the realities from a psychological perspective.
Anita Desai is in many ways a representatives of Indian woman novelist in English. Her contribution to fiction in independent India is more significant than the other women novelists such as Ruth Prawer, Nayantara Saghal or Kamala Markandaya. She as a woman writer has a belief and concern more with thought, emotion, and sensation than with the action, experience and achievement. She is not only attended to the problems of women in the Indian society but was keen …show more content…
It records life and society’s response to it which is embodied in author’s creation. The aim of the paper is to flashlight the social realities depicted in the novels of Anita Desai and Kiran Desai.
In the house of fiction are many mansions. The Indian English fiction in post independent Indian has assumed all kinds of colourful traditions. The novel thrives in a complex society with a dense social structure. It explores the ordinary and common place in all their bewildering complexity. Truthfulness is its motto; realism is its animating principle.
Anita Desai’s major themes are human relationships, alienation, loneliness, lack of communication, East West Encounter, violence and death. Her novels unfold the inner realities and psychic reverberations of her characters and tell the harrowing tales of blunted human relationships. The novels are certainly reflective of social realities. She was keen on portraying the social world.
Being the daughter of representative of Indian novelist, Kiran Deasi has won the booker prize, where her mother could not succeed though Anita Desai’s novel was listed thrice. Kiran walked on the food steps of her mother, continued along the contours marked by her mother’s experience and the way of …show more content…
Both the novels (Fire on the Mountain and The Inheritance of Loss) deal with embittered old Anglophile people who withdraw from the world only to have their solitude interrupted by the arrival of a grandchild.
One feels that Kiran has not conceptualized the characters clearly; she seems to be echoing a similar situation in Anita Desai’s novel Fire on the Mountain where Nanda Kaul’s lonely life is disturbed by the arrival of her great grand daughter Raka. Like her own great grandmother she wanted only one thing- to be left alone. Nanda realizes that Raka “was t5he finished, perfected model of what she herself was merely a brave, flawed experiment”. (Fire on the Mountain, 47)
In the The Inheritance of Loss, the judge realises that Sai “… was more his kin than he had thought. There was something familiar about her, she had the same the accent and manners” (The Inheritance of Loss,
Anita Desai is in many ways a representatives of Indian woman novelist in English. Her contribution to fiction in independent India is more significant than the other women novelists such as Ruth Prawer, Nayantara Saghal or Kamala Markandaya. She as a woman writer has a belief and concern more with thought, emotion, and sensation than with the action, experience and achievement. She is not only attended to the problems of women in the Indian society but was keen …show more content…
It records life and society’s response to it which is embodied in author’s creation. The aim of the paper is to flashlight the social realities depicted in the novels of Anita Desai and Kiran Desai.
In the house of fiction are many mansions. The Indian English fiction in post independent Indian has assumed all kinds of colourful traditions. The novel thrives in a complex society with a dense social structure. It explores the ordinary and common place in all their bewildering complexity. Truthfulness is its motto; realism is its animating principle.
Anita Desai’s major themes are human relationships, alienation, loneliness, lack of communication, East West Encounter, violence and death. Her novels unfold the inner realities and psychic reverberations of her characters and tell the harrowing tales of blunted human relationships. The novels are certainly reflective of social realities. She was keen on portraying the social world.
Being the daughter of representative of Indian novelist, Kiran Deasi has won the booker prize, where her mother could not succeed though Anita Desai’s novel was listed thrice. Kiran walked on the food steps of her mother, continued along the contours marked by her mother’s experience and the way of …show more content…
Both the novels (Fire on the Mountain and The Inheritance of Loss) deal with embittered old Anglophile people who withdraw from the world only to have their solitude interrupted by the arrival of a grandchild.
One feels that Kiran has not conceptualized the characters clearly; she seems to be echoing a similar situation in Anita Desai’s novel Fire on the Mountain where Nanda Kaul’s lonely life is disturbed by the arrival of her great grand daughter Raka. Like her own great grandmother she wanted only one thing- to be left alone. Nanda realizes that Raka “was t5he finished, perfected model of what she herself was merely a brave, flawed experiment”. (Fire on the Mountain, 47)
In the The Inheritance of Loss, the judge realises that Sai “… was more his kin than he had thought. There was something familiar about her, she had the same the accent and manners” (The Inheritance of Loss,