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

listed the characteristics or tenets of Anandfs humanism inchapter 2 titled "The Humanism of Mulk Raj Anandn. He undertakesthereafter to make a close reading of all his fictional works andshorter fiction from the perspective of Anand's humanism.Balarama Gupta winds up his study by stating that Anand as ahumanist has surpassed Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, the firstBengali novelist and even Tagore, his mentor and model, inrespect of the psychological approach in fiction, as Tagorefsinterest was confined to the genteel upper middle class andaffluent society. Anand has scored a point over Prem Chand,Gupta concludes, in this, that the former's fictional men andwomen are by far more reflective, speculative, articulate andeven assertive than Prem Chandfs ensemble of docile, submissive,static, helpless characters. Gupta has also underlined some ofAnandfs defects as a writer, specially his preoccupation with anideology at the expense of his style.Alastair Niven's The Yoke of Pity: A Studv in theFictional writinss of Nulk Raj Anand (1978) offers a wholespectrum of insights into the techniques and fictive approachesof Anand as exemplified in his novels. He has tried toinvestigate the message of Anand in each of his novels. bysituating the story and action of the novel in the overallperspective of his social philosophy and aesthetic principles.Niven's perceptive study of Gauri and The Biu Heart have yielded