The Age Of Alienation In Don Quixote

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Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quixote, is frequently cited as the first significant European novelist of the modern era, the first part of which was published in 1605.new and novel come from the same indo- European root but by different paths. Whereas new is a Germanic word coming from Old English, novel is based on Latin Novellus “new, young, fresh”. If something is novel, it is new but also original, fresh and unique. Companies are always looking for that novel idea that will earn them millions and skydiving is a novel experience, especially if you’re not adventurous.
The beginning of the Indian English novel is marked by Bankum Chandra Chatterjee’s Rajmohan’s wife (1864). The novel is typically Indian in its setting, manner and …show more content…

The twentieth century, especially the post war period, has witnessed great spiritual stress and strain; therefore it has been rightly regarded as “The Age of Alienation”. In this age, man is brought face to face with confusion, frustration, disintegration, disillusionment and meaninglessness in life. Modern men suffer from a gnawing sense of meaninglessness which leads him to “The Alienation from oneself” from one’s fellow men and from nature; the awareness that life runs out of one’s hand like sand and that one will die without having lived; that one lives in the midst of plenty and “ …show more content…

They are now interested in the dissection of the disturbed psyche of an individual. The Indian- English fiction has finally created its own stand at the international level with the advent of many notable novelist, poets and dramatists. At this stage, it would be indeed interesting and beneficial to know about the art of one of the major Indian- English novelists. It seems to be the novelist of Mulk Raj Anand, R.K.Narayan and Raja Rao and has created a strategy of presenting his protagonists experiences in human life without losing its flavor. Mulk Raj Anand was born in Peshawar, was an Indian writer in English, Anand studied at Khalsa College, Amritsar, graduating with honors in 1924, before moving to England, where he attend university college London as an undergraduate and later Cambridge University, earring a PhD in philosophy in 1929. During this time he forged friendship with members of the Bloomsbury Group. He spent some time in Geneva, lecturing at the League of Nations’ school of intellectual

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