In women's writing what is valued is a feminist critique of patriarchy, and it is fashionable to attribute such motives to most women writers. Since some major Indian women's writings resist such straitjacketing, there could be more profitable ways of reading their texts. Anita Desai's is a case in point. Some critics have avoided looking at her works through the feminist lens. Some others have insisted on using her works exclusively as feminist even in the face of her disavowal of the creed.
Unlike most of the modem writers who misinterpret man's true condition by accepting a bitterness about absurd existence, Anita Desai holds the view that the writer must perpetually fight for the true depiction of man's condition and the mystery about it. During the execution of her process of exploration of this mystery, Anita Desai calls for a fresh approach to reality, holds life as a sacred asset and seeks to communicate its richness, power and mystery through ideas that contradict the formidable stances of alienation and absurdity.
"The novel is a perpetual quest for reality, the field of its research being always the social world, the material of its analysis being always manners as the indication of the direction of man's soul."
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