Volume III Issue III July-September 2023

Name of Author : Dr. N Sathiya, Dr. K Veeramani

Title of the paper : Discovering Self from Isolation in Arun Joshis The Foreigner

Abstract: Alienation and involvement,east-west encounter and compromise, existentialism and materialism, quest and complacency are the themes explored in most of the fictional topics by Arun Joshi. He depicts the spiritual suffering of his lone seekers in his books. They are genuinely perplexed individuals that wander the earth in search of their ancestry and in an effort to understand why they are here. Arun Joshis novel The Foreigner, which has undergone a thorough analysis, reveals that crisis and quest are the two main experiences in his writing. The novelist illustrates Sindis suffering brought on by his loneliness and his alleged rootlessness in The Foreigner, which deals with Sindi Oberois transition from separation from the world to his involvement in it. He tries to isolate himself from society by the sense of a native outsider and he encounters hypocrisy, cowardice, vanity, and foolishness . He develops relationships with a number of women. Although they also serve as a perihelia, June and Babus deaths only serve to increase his sense of separation.He searched himself in India through travelling.Sindi endures hardships along the way to discovering oneself, but in the end, he senses his spirit emerging refreshed and purified. His purpose for being in this world becomes clear to him. He understands that the detachment theory actually means unselfish action, not renunciation, as it is described in The Gita. Sindis estrangement and his misguided notion of detachment are both harshly criticised in the novels concluding paragraphs.

Keywords : Rootlessness, Suffering, Experiences, Separation, Estrangement

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Page No. : 10-13