Journey of Anita Desai as a Novelist

Page: 162-165

Nitika Rani (Department of English, Government College, Hisar, Haryana)

Anita Desai’s works are not the same as those of other Indian woman authors in English. Nayantara Sehgal, Kamala Markandaya and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala are chiefly concerned with legislative issues, East-West experiences and social topics. Desai is worried about the mystic existence of her characters. For, it is “the profundity which is intriguing digging further and more profound in a character or a scene ” (Jain, 61). She has endeavoured to see minutely the issue of her female characters. She speaks to the welcome ‘inventive arrival of the female sensibility.’ Critics find in her, proof of a take-off from current methods of anecdotal composition and of a sincere exertion to break new grounds” (Bellippa, 10).