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Arun Joshi is one of the most prolific writers in Indian writing in English who used his art as a wepon to resolve the society.This book gives clear picture of Arun Joshi´s vision of life. The Author attempts to record Joshi´s "exploration of mysterious under world which the human soul". The book offers a comprehensive critical analysis of Arun Joshi´s novels. The central focus of Arun Joshi´s fiction is in the ´self´ irretrivably lost in the labyrinth of industrialized and dehumanized society. the protagonist of Arun Joshi feels helpless, isolated and dispossessed. In all five chapters of the book, the major concerns of Arun Joshi viz., existential predicament, alienation, dispossession, rootlessness have been discussed.

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Kumar J. Kiran, Ph.D: Studied English Literature at Andhra University, Visakhapatnam. Assistant Professor at Gokul Institute of Technology and Science, Bobbili, Vizianagaram,A.P.

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