Volume : VI, Issue : IX, September - 2017

Time‘ in Anita Desai‘s Clear Light of Day

Dr. Nagaratna V. Parande

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 Clear Light of Day was first published in 1980 in the USA by Harper and Row; in the same year in Britain by Penguin Books. The title of the novel is a phrase used in the final section of the novel by the author by herself while describing the state of mind of the protagonist. According to the author this is a novel “about time as a destroyer, as a preserver, and about what the bondage of time does to people”. The novel is a “four dimensional piece on how a family’s life moves backwards and forwards in a period of time”    At the same time, politics and history can be seen in the background throughout Clear Light of Day, as the Partition of British India in 1947 can be traced through the characters’ various experiences. In that way we see in some detail how history has had an impact on people’s personal lives. This is what makes the novel so interesting to read. The present paper analyses the notion of duality of time – time as a destroyer and as a preserver – as  portrayed by the author in this novel.

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Dr. Nagaratna V. Parande, Time‘ in Anita Desai‘s Clear Light of Day, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH : Volume-6 | Issue-9 | September-2017

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