Novels of William Styron- A Study on American Literature

About the Book William Styron (1925-2006) is one of America's most important contemporary novelists. This book presents a perspective study of Styron's concern with the tragic fact of human existence on earth. It illustrates the guilt, pain and suffering of the people on different fronts as a constant Endeavour to affirm the human values despite the nihilistic terror caused by ubiquitous violence in the modern age in the different parts of world.

The book explores Styron's consciousness of human value which is being destroyed on the basis of color differences and sometimes on the name of Creed, Soil, Honor and 'Nationalities.

It also shows the tragic existence of a Man even at home in the lack of love and compassion. The things are illustrated with eternal love story and a slave revolt led by Nat Turner in 1831 in southern Virginia-USA. It also integrates how the army officers negate human worth on the name of honor and pride.

About the Author Dr. Navratan Singh (b. 1974) in an Assistant Prot S80f in the Department of English and Other Poreign Language s f Mahatma Gandhi Kuhn Vidyapith University, Varanasi. He has a number of research articles published in different national and imitational journals to his credit. He is the member of Board of Studies and Re arch Development Committee in his Department. His area of canalization is American fiction. Nowadays h I taking a development part in National service Scheme. He h s given a lot of contribution in increasing voting percentage in U.P. Vidhan Sabha Election 2017 as a VEEP Coordinator. Now days he is giving his best as the Warden of S ,ST. Hostel e t by Govt. f Uttar Pradesh and as member of University Pretoria Board. He is also a member of the Committee of Faculty of Humanities of the University. Dr. Singh has started his career in election from Intermediate College, getting elction from Madhyamic Shiksha Chayan Board, Allahabad, then to Deegre Colleg by Uttar Pradesh Higher Education Commission, Allahabad and Public Service Commission, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh. He has taught American Literature, New Literature and Poet Colonial Literature at UG and PG level in the department and etc. Including their on, his three books in his account The Exploration of Guilt, Pain and Suffering in Novel of William Styron. 2, Polyphony of Indian Literary Tradition.

Preface This study, it is hoped, will help all researchers of American literature in forming an inclusive approach about American fiction today. It will help them to understand William Styron, the Modem American novelist. This work is based on his well known novels. It focuses on Styron's southernism, the expression of guilt against injustice, pain and suffering.

Violence and compassion appears to be contradictory but both are inseparable. They help him to design the humanistic concerns of modern fiction.

The negation of human worth has been a matter of concern to the literary artists and the American soil has not a clean face about the aspect. It has a horrifying image of murders, rapes and so many exploitations on the basis of race. It directly matches with the destruction of European Jews on the basis of creed. So the work deals not only with American slavery but with holocaust of Auschwitz and Vietnam. The depiction of Holocaust in Sophie's Choice evidently stirred as a deep response in Europe as the depiction of slavery did in America in Nat Turner. Styron presents both beautifully one with eternal love story and other with a revolt against injustice. It also focuses on the concept of benevolence and compassion through his domestic tragedy 'Lie Down in Darkness' and the painful condition of army soldiers in 'Long March', a novella. The power of good and evil is depicted through 'Set This House 01/ Fire' in which the protagonist sets his body on fire after the recognition of truth.

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