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- Title
Self-identity and Emptiness in Arun Joshi's The Last Labyrinth.
- Authors
Deepalakshmi, S.; Sundararajan, K.
- Abstract
Arun Joshi's The Last Labyrinth was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award for its excellent handling of the theme of contemporary Indian's existential dilemma. It was Arun Joshi's fourth novel dealt with the inner and outer world of a westernized Indian Aristocrat who had lost his spiritual roots. Arun Joshi is concerned with the predicament of modern man and is sensitivity alive to the various dimensions of pressures, exerted by the complex character and demands of the society in which contemporary man is destined to live. In The Last Labyrinth, Som was mentally disturbed and filled with anguish, self-hatred and self-pity, for they consider themselves as strangers in this physical world. Self was explored by in his fiction and brought a central focus of the self has to assess its alienation from the family and society. Joshi dealt with the modern man who had no sense of affinity to society amidst which he lived. He found own existence a burden. There is a two alternatives for the present day man with his tragic plight that is modern man either try to adjust to the others, system and hiding his true self or he may give efforts to keep and develop his individuality and therefore alienate himself from society.
- Subjects
LAST Labyrinth, The (Book); JOSHI, Arun; EMPTINESS (Philosophy); SELF-hate (Psychology); INDIVIDUALITY
- Publication
Language in India, 2019, Vol 19, Issue 12, p110
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Article