A Critical Analysis of Vikram Sethi ‘s an Equal Music
Journal Title: Notions A Journal of English Literature - Year 2017, Vol 0, Issue 1
Abstract
Ian Equal Music is a novel written by an Indian with nothing Indian in it, and set in England with English characters. Moreover, it deals with characters intense love and loss that causes loneliness and psychotic existence in their life. Music, love and loss are thus major facets of the young generation depicted in the novel. It is appropriate because both love and music play on the emotions. By putting music back into the people who perform it, we know the young characters through their hopes, quarrels, ambitions, love, professional contacts they have to make with agents, critics, instrument makers and players. Characters reflect their flaws, restlessness and inertia. They see in themselves volatility, a sense of resistance, roughness, impulsiveness, even at times of dark panic, almost brainsickness. Feeling of betrayal, guilt, of despair and depression is also there and their inability to swallow their sense of self.
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A Subhashini
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