LIBERATION MOTIF IN SELECT NOVELS OF MULK RAJ ANAND ...

detachment from his subject and characters. In his attempt toharmonize the Eastern and Western traditions, he is an heir toTagore and scores a creditable victory in novles such as The BiqHeart, Untouchable and The Road. Lindsay makes Anand out to bea citizen of the world, who strives through his writings, tocreate a new India, a new society and new harmony.D. Riemenschneider has a monograph that must have, when itappeared in 1967, been a breath of fresh air in Anand criticism,as the author maintains that Anandfs conceptual framework isquite limited and therefore it is his artistic and creativeacumen that must have enabled him to create a whole gamut ofpeople in his novels. The article entitled "An ideal of Man inMulk Raj Anandrs Novelsw (1967) sets out to show how from Munooof Coolie to Maqbool in Death of Hero there is one line ofstereotyped heroes but how there is a constant development, anever deeper insight into man's nature and the different stages inthe process of self-realization. From one protagonist to theother, there is a higher level of maturity, a spiral process ofgrowth in self-awareness, According to the author, Gauri andAnanta are two characters in whom Anand has expressed his idea ofman clearly and convincingly. Anand seems to advocate the idealthat the most a man can do, is to sacrifice his awn self for thesake of his ideas or his fellow human beings.