Spiritual Agony and Hunger In the Protagonist In the Last Labyrinth By Arun Joshi

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Journal of Advances and Scholarly Researches in Allied Education [JASRAE] (Vol:7/ Issue: 14) DOI: 10.29070/JASRAE
Authors: Manju Bala,
Subjects: Multidisciplinary Academic Research

Year: Apr, 2014
Volume: 7 / Issue: 14
Pages: 0 - 0 (0)
Publisher: Ignited Minds Journals
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E-ISSN: 2230-7540
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Published URL: http://ipublisher.in/p/2758
Published On: Apr, 2014

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Spiritual Agony and Hunger In the Protagonist In the Last Labyrinth By Arun Joshi |

Manju Bala, in Journal of Advances and Scholarly Researches in Allied Education | Multidisciplinary Academic Research

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ABSTRACT:

Arun Jhoshi’s fourth and Sahitya Academy Winner novel The Last Labyrinth (1981) is of god sizeand is dedicated to the three children of Joshi. Here, the central figure isSom Bhaskar, a multimillionaire married to a woman of his choice, Geeta, whohas borne him two children. But Bhaskar is an ever dissatisfied, restlessperson, who is relentlessly driven by undefined hungers of possession – of anobject, a business-enterprise and a woman. Searching for a meaning of life anddeath, Som confronts with the dilemmas and contradictions.