Man and his Estranged Self in Upamanyu Chatterjee’s Weight Loss
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2015
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Upamanyu Chatterjee's novel Weight
Loss can be read as a journey from
rootlessness to maturity. Bhola, the
protagonist of the novel undergoes
existential problems and finally realizes his
responsibility. The novel depicts Bhola's
withdrawal from his society and his own
self in quest of self-realization. Alienated
frojn. society and his own self, he feels
lonely. C)nce love represented a harmonious
life. But now it has ceased to be so for him.
Life is measured according to its practical
values and aU life generating values. Those
values are ignored or misused in the
contemporary society. This is revealed in
Chatteqee's novel PVe/^f Less depicting the
modem society.