Volume II Special Issue I January 2022

Name of Author : Neethu A. Nair

Title of the paper : Living in the world of Alienation: A Reading of Peter Handkes Select Fictional Narratives

Abstract: The Paper Living in the world of Alienation A Reading of Peter Handkes Select Fictional Narratives aims to focus on the state of mind of the main protagonists of some select fictions who underwent mental trauma and delineation from society. The post-war period has been the result of this sense of uprootedness, identity crisis, meaninglessness in the way of existence. Man has become a cognitive giant and mindless gnome in the ety. The seed of alienation is rooted in the individual itself. It is a state of mind that results from the conflict between the inner mind of the individual and the external world. As man becomes a slave to emotion and artificial life is intended for him. The demanding values and the expected values conquer each other and the result is the vulnerability of powerlessness.

Keywords : Alienation, Identity crisis, Vulnerability, Delineation, Uprootedness

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Page Number : 50-52