ABSTRACT
Literature is one among the fine arts like painting, sculpture and music which express emotions, feelings, humour, and happiness using language as a medium of communication through different sorts of the genre like prose, poetry, drama and novel. It reflects the items that happen within society and life. It deals with human being’s personal experience, nature, war, culture, imagination, history, etc. Indian English literature is that the outcome of the works written by the Indian author who writes in English. In India, there are numerous languages and different literatures. Arun Joshi deals with a very difficult situation of a modern man and is sensitively alive to the various dimensions of tortures, exerted by the difficult character and demands of the society in which same age man is destined to live. The heroes of his novels are helpless outsiders and the harsh strangers. The consciousness of man’s rootlessness and new feeling and the major search for a meaningful self is the key factor of Joshi’s novels.
Keywords: Modern man, Foreigner, Billy Biswas, Self-Identity, Arun Joshi, Quest, and Select Novel.
Citation: Revathy P., and Peruvalluthi V. (2020). Quest and assessment for self-identity in the select Novel of Arun Joshi, Br. J. Arts Humanit. 2(4), 82-86. https://doi.org/10.34104/bjah.020082086
