Written Traces

  Why You Are the Way You Are?   The best way to answer this question would be to first fully understand it. The question seeks an answer from me as to why I have completely given up on people who were once very close to me or so I would made myself to believe. Before going any further I would make it very clear that my elaboration most certainly will make some eyebrows raised whose sentiments or as they would like to put it POV is about to hurt. But then again, it’s not about them but me and how I felt and what led me to have that opinion about them. So here it goes, the reason I have divorced myself from the superficiality of people is because of the realization that I have had in the past couple of months. Now you must ask what that realization might be? The realization being the sheer fact that despite having the existence of tons of people in my life, they are non-existential for me. The fact that when I am devoured by grief and the blow of circumstances, I ...

 ABOUT THE NOVELIST  Salman Rushdie, born on 19th June 1947, is an Indian born British-American novelist and essayist. He was born into a Kashmiri-Muslim family to Anit Ahmed Rushdie and Negin Bhatt. He was born and educated in Bombay in St. Cathedral until he was fourteen. Soon after that age he left the city of Bombay for England to study at Rugby School. And it was during this time when he tasted the bitter experience of racism with comments such as “Wogs go home” from one of the boys at Rugby. So hurt by the experience that Rushdie never wanted to return to England. However, persuaded by his parents he joined King’s College in Cambridge and returned to England to study for his graduation. After graduation, he worked as a stage actor and also as a copywriter in an advertising firm.  It was also the time when he was giving some serious thoughts of becoming a writer.  As a writer, Rushdie’s work reflects a combination of magical realism with historical fiction...

 ABOUT THE NOVELIST William Faulkner (1897-1962) was an American novelist , essayist , poet , short story writer and screen writer of great repute. He was born in a distinguished family in the southern state of Oxford, Mississippi and became the most distinguished novelist of American literature. Faulkner , like many great writers in literary history, never had a formal education. He never graduated from a high school and failed in the only English course that he took. But he worked hard at the craft of writing and won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize for fiction. Faulkner started his career as a poet but after his meeting with Sherwood Anderson, who was an already established writer, he started working on his first novel Soldier’s Pay (1926) which he later published with the help of Anderson. Three years later, he published his most famous novel , The Sound and the Fury (1929) and became a major writer. In 1931 , he published Sanctuary , mainly with a view of makin...

  1.                   ABOUT THE NOVELIST Theodore Dreiser, born on 27 August 1871 in Terre Haute, Indiana to John Paul Dreiser and Sarah Maria, was an American novelist and journalist of naturalist school. His novels often featured main characters who succeeded at their objectives despite lack of firm moral code and literary situations that more closely resembles studies of nature than tales of choice and agency. Dreiser attended Indiana University after graduating from high school in Warsaw, Indiana but he left the university without taking a degree. Within several years, Dreiser became a journalist writing exclusively for the Chicago Globe newspaper and then the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. IMPORTANT WORKS ·          Sister Carrie (1900) ·          Jennie Gerhardt (1911) ·          The Financier (1912) ·...

 THE BACKGROUND OF THE NOVEL   To understand the text of the novel Kanthapura it is important to have the knowledge about its background, the inspiration that the author took to write the novel.  The novel “Kanthapura” is a social document, written in 1929 and published in 1938,  about a village in turmoil due to the sources from which it has shaped it’s form. That source is the social and political upheaval of a dependent India. Whatever was happening on the political scene of India in the 1930s finds its due reflection in the novel.  GANDHI’S THOUGHT AND ITS IMPACT The novel is set in the 1930s in an archetypical South Indian village named “Kanthapura” and is inspired by Gandhi’s ideology of “Ahimsa” and  “Satyagraha”. Gandhi doesn't feature in the novel as a character but the presence of Gandhi can be felt in every part of the novel and his philosophy of life and political struggle is reflected by the thought and action of many characters in the novel , ...