SALMAN RUSHDIE NOVELS: A STUDY
Abstract
this paper shows the difficulties faced by hero after the demise of his heroien in the novels of Salman Rushdie. Rushdie has addressed the theme of affection in such an elaborate manner which is discussed in the paper. The paper also represents that love doesn't die together with death. The lover struggles to bring her love back through his art and Nature plays an important role within the development.
Keywords: Death, Nature, Environmental, Love
Modernism had its origin within the beginning of the 20th century and it remained hip for a couple of decades until it paved the way for postmodernism within the 1950s. Modernist writers like W.B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot, Pound and Joyce reflect the distemper of their age-man’s rootlessnes, his neurosis and moral degradation. There’s also in their writings nostalgia for the past world of religion in fixed values when there was peace, harmony and certainty in life. There’s no ray of hope in modernist writings. There’s only a way of despair and hopelessness. If in the least there's some hope of redemption offered by T. S. Eliot, it's very faint; it's dominated by a way of despondency. This sense of hopelessness comes from the deep realization that there's no possibility of repairing to the old world when people had faith in cultural and non secular values.
The modernist writings are chiefly anthropocentric. Their focus is citizenry. But some eco-critics today have discovered within the m ecological concerns also in the shape of nostalgia for rural and primitive modes of living, as within the case of D. H. Lawrence. Eliot’s poetry (though he was an anti-romantic) too may be a strong condemnation of urbocentric living of the 20th century. The urban centers of living are described as desert-like places and called wastelands. The spiritual barrenness of man is described in terms of images drawn from nature, as is found within the following lines of The Waste Land:
