THE FLESH AND THE SPIRIT: THE DIALECTIC OF CARNAL DESIRE AND SPIRITUAL ENLIGHTENMENT IN ARUN JOSHI’S THE LAST LABYRINTH
ShodhKosh Journal of Visual and Performing Arts June 30, 2024 D. J. M. Arputhamani
This paper attempts to discuss the thematic dialecticism in Arun Joshi’s Sahitya Akademi Award winning novel The Last Labyrinth which is one of the complicated and interesting novel motifs found in it. The story is about the unstable consciousness of the protagonist, hyper rational, western educated, millionaire industrialist Som Bhaskar, which is split between secular materialism and latent...