Art For Life's Sake : A Study of Mulk Raj Anand’s Coolie and Untouchable
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Appeal, Dislike, Expansion, SocietyAbstract
The discussion of the two novels above makes it abundantly clear that Anand, like most Indo- English novelist, did not stick to any one particular theory of the novel. He knew that novel, by its very nature, was a loose genre and allowed the writer to use it according to his purpose and motive. Anand has followed the old age conventions of the novel, but has also departed from them at places to make his works richly appealing. If he has followed the conventional mode of story-telling, he has also chosen to keep it to the bare minimum as in Untouchable, and instead built his novels on character, dialogue and interior monologue. He has also employed deviant linguistic modes to achieve the desired effects according to his intention.
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