Literary Criticism In A Strange And Sublime Thought, By Amit Chaudhuri

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LITERARY CRITICISM Name of the fiction : FREEDOM SONG Written by : Amit Chaudhuri, An Indian English writer Published by : The Penguin Book India Pvt. Ltd., Gurgaon - Haryana, India. Literary Criticism is the study, evaluation and interpretation of Literature. Modern Literary Criticism is often influenced by literary theory, which is the philosophical discussion of literature’s goals and methods. Though the two activities are closely related, literacy critics are not always and have not always been, theorists. I have been taken Amit Chauduri’s FREEDOM SONG for my evaluation. Amit Chauduri is an Indian English writer who is the author of five highly acclaimed novels of which A Strange and Sublime Address, Afternoon

Chaudhuri explains the family relationship, day-to-day conversation, their feelings, and everything as it is. In shortly he brings down the Calcutta city especially the Vidhyasagar road and the Lake circle infront of our eyes. Chaudhuri can write better than just about anyone of his generation. He uses simple English to explain this. He seems aware of the peculiar poignancies of a sheltered middle-class existence in India, and is able to describe them in measured prose of an unvaryingly high quality. In many places / (or) many episodes Chaudhuri scolds the fundamentalists slightly through his charactors. The Fiction ‘Freedom Song’ has an important place in English novels of Indian writers. This is a story of a middle class north Indian family. It was a large one consists of more than ten members Uncles, aunts, grant uncles, grant aunts, nieces, nephews, cousins, etc., Chaudhuri carefully described their feelings characterizations, behaviours and even their positions also. The novel is full of describtions. In other words, Amit Chaudhuri narrates every aspects thoroughly with his unique style. Busy roads, small lane, three-storeyed houses, ten-storeyed houses, southern avenues and every small places like drawing room, bed room everything described in detailed

Chaudhuri’s writings are a mirror to the non-Indians to know well about Indian society. In the first episode Mini, the school teacher wears her saree, Author describes that interestingly

“Then, hobbling towards the dressing-table, she stood opposite her reflection, exactly a dark and stocky at herself, and began to sort out, with both hands, the folds of a white sari with a green border, tucking it to first into the petticoat that had been tiet not only above stomach-level, but almost approaching the chest; chin lowered, she drew the layers of the sari around herself till she was almost completely ensconced in it, ‘Bus’! (ok / enough).” - [Page No.5] Our society always likes renaissance, we support persons, revolutionists like Bhagt Shing, Bala Gangadhara Tilak, Netaji Subash Chandra Bose and Sardhar Vallabhai Patel. But we are not recognize if such personality come off our family. Here the young man Bhaskar, have a left ideals. He is a member of Marxist Communist Party. He voluntirely distribute the party magazine ‘Ganashakti’ door by door regularly. On hearing that the whole family worried about