Critically examine the narrative techniques employed in the novel Fire on the Mountain.

Critically examine the narrative techniques employed in the novel Fire on the Mountain.

Introduction:

Anita desai is not interested in picturing the ‘surface reality’.

She is more interested in discovering the unknown, untapped,

dark regions in the human mind in a given social milieu. But

the back ground of social setting does not interfere with the

minute probing of individuals. The vehicle of expression is in

the stream of consciousness mode and Anita Desai follows

the foot step of masters like Henry James, James Joyce and

Virginia wolf in creating a particular style which suits her material.

Anita desai is endowed with boundless imaginative resourcefulness

and creative vitality. She reveals amazing variety and

profundity in her fictional world. She has given a new dimension

to the Indian novel in English by turning from outer to

inner reality. G.Rai , has called her, ‘a writer with an original

voice’(Shrivastava,93). Desai is well known for her use of new

techniques.

Desai’s Techniques:

The word techniques is derived from the Greek word , technique

means an art. The method adopted by a writer to present

life in the process of living may be described as the narrative

technique. Though the novel gets its main sustenance

from the story It intends to tell, its success depends on how

it is narrated. The quality of readability, the most important of

all the desirable qualities of a novel, may be achieved when

there is compatibility between the narration and the narrative

technique...........................................................................................................

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