Volume : V, Issue : X, October - 2015

QUEST FOR TRUTH IN ANITA DESAI’S JOURNEY TO ITHACA

Aparimita Mishra

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 This paper attempts to explore and examine the Quest theme in Anita Desai‘s Journey to Ithaca; Matteo Sophie, the major protagonist search for enlightenment and awakening. The central issue is not the search for identity of existence, but search for Truth, Ultimate reality, beauty, joy ecstasy or whatever form truth has. Desai gives an poetic expression to Indian Philosophy. The Vedas which constitute the essential foundation of the entire spiritual tradition of India. It attempts to highlight through the study of the novel, the journey motif and the crosscultural complexities and confrontations that such journey envisages

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APARIMITA MISHRA Quest For Truth in Anita Desai¥s Journey to Ithaca Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.5, Issue : 10 October 2015

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