Colorful Paradigms of Values in Arun Joshi’s Novels

Abstract

A writer writes in response to the socio-cultural milieu of his times and advertently or inadvertently presents various colours of values in his work of art. This paper reveals different colours of values in the novels of Arun Joshi (1939-1993), whose output in the domain of Indian English Fiction is limited to five novels, namely: The Foreigner (1968), The Strange Case of Billy Biswas (1971), The Apprentice (1974), The Last Labyrinth (1981) and The City and The River (1990) along with a collection of short stories, The Survivor and Other Stories (1975).  

Keywords: Paradigms of Values, Indian English Fiction, Arun Joshi, Socio-cultural milieu, Work of art