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

Mrs. ~ukherjee points to the lack of a "sustaining mythu asthe major cause for Anandf s failure as an artist. As a result,she adds, Anandrs characters are tlrootless and rnythless andappear somewhat unnaturaltg. Mrs. Mukherjee should recognise thatAnand has tried to create a new myth, and that is, his projectionof social outcastes and eccentrics as heroes, thus explodingthe myth that only aristocrats could be heroes.Saros Cowasjee has an essay entitled "The Biq Heart: A NewPerspectiven in ACLALS Bulletin (4th Series, No.2, 1991) where hetraces the different conflicts in the novel to the one basic orfundamental economic problem. Hence he concludes that allfreedom is reducible in Marxist categories to economic freedom.He moreover, commends Anand for making a significant deviationfrom his earlier narrow frame of interest in order to recognisethe good even in an otherwise evil system like, for instance,the cornpossionate factory owners and machines in the context ofindividualistic profit-seeking industrial capitalism. Thearticle throws light on the humane and positive side of Anandfspersonality.The spring 77 issue of the Pakativa Journal of EnalishStudies (KJES) has articles by Jack Lindsay and G.S. BalaramaGupta. In "Three views on Cooliew, Jack Lindsay sets out to provethat Anand was a trail-blazer as one, who in his novel, presentedthe manifold and variegated glories and aspects of India and its