Cultural Encounters In Anita Desai

THEME OF ALIENATION IN MODERN LITERATURE

desire to live makes this novel existentialist in the true sense of the term. Anita Desai’s novel Fire on the Mountain is an existential novel. Anita Desai adroitly explores the emotional life of her characters, especially female characters. She chooses only those characters who are emotionally famished and who fail to come to terms with reality.

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