A Spiritual Vision in John Updlike's Early Fiction

About The Book In this volume, the author Dr. Narendra Pratap Singh presents a fascinating and graphic account of Bhabani Bhattacharya's life and message to people. This book presents a fresh interpretation of the novels of Dr. Bhattacharya. It makes a comprehensive arid perceptive study of his multidimensional social vision which covers the entire gamut of his creative writings.

It endeavours to make an analysis of the novels of Bhattacharya for mainly two social problems: class relationship and decadent values and finally highlights a cogent view of how the novelist wants the history of the country to shape itself. The volume successfully establishes the relationship between Bhattacharya's life and fiction. It not only analyses the ills and anomalies eating into vitals of society but also discovers the philosophy, suggested by the novelist, to mitigate social tensions and restore harmony.

It analyses and comments competently on Bhattacharya's universal brotherhood, his humanism and his emphasis on the richness of human spirit to help others at the cost of one's own life and his advocacy ofjudicious synthesis of divergent values of life as an effective social panacea. This hook also makes a critique on Bhattacharya's six novels depicting contemporary social, political, economic and religious realities of India before and after independence. It also highlights his plea for the social and moral function of art and for reality and truth in literature and also his marvellous use of contemporary events for writing novels.

About The Author

Born in a village of Jaunpur District, Narendra Pratap Singh has an M.A. and Ph.D. in English from Benaras Hindu University. He has been teaching English to undergraduate and Post Graduate classes for more than two and half decades. So far he has rendered his distinguished services at several educational institutions like Shivpati P.G. College, Siddharth Nagar and SM.R.D. Post Graduate College, Bhurkura, Ghazipur. Currently he is teaching in Udai Pratap Autonomous College, Varanasi. Dr. Singh is a bi-lingual writer. His articles and research paper's have been published in national and international journals and standard magazines. He is actively engaged in research. Presently he is supervising research work of five research scholars enrolled under him. He has presented his research papers at national and international seminars. Ile is a voracious reader and takes keen interest in reading novels and short stories. Creative ethos is prominently figured in his literary pursuit.

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