Man and his Estranged Self in Upamanyu Chatterjee’s Weight Loss
| dc.category | Journal Article | |
| dc.contributor.author | Chitra, S | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-04-07T22:07:30Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-04-07T22:07:30Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
| dc.department | English | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | 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. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://ir.avinuty.ac.in/handle/avu/2899 | |
| dc.lang | English | en_US |
| dc.publisher.name | Research Highlights | en_US |
| dc.publisher.type | National | en_US |
| dc.title | Man and his Estranged Self in Upamanyu Chatterjee’s Weight Loss | en_US |
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