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2. Foi, doute et aliénation dans le roman Dard lā davā (1975) de Krishna Baldev Vaid

Creator:
Castaing, Anne
Format:
bez média and svazek
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model:article and TEXT
Subject:
Hindi novel, Samuel Beckett, absurd, Existentialism, Sufism, and Bhakti
Language:
English
Description:
The works of fiction of K. B. Vaid (born in 1927) question the relationship between postmodern literature and religiosity. The novel Dard lā davā (1975), a long non-referential monologue, close to the Beckettian "absurd" parallels the concepts of exile and the mystical quest, where the notions of "pain:, "doubt", "alienation" and "separation" are equally convoked. Nevertheless, the lack of "faith", as claimed by the author, finds its "raison d´être" in his refusal to employ definite religous categories, such as orthodoxy, the polarisation of Islam and Hinduism, and the divine authority itself when blasphemy is exploited. The religious discourse, the author insists, should be human, secular, mixed and polyphonic. The purpose of this paper is, primarily, to bring to liht the way Vaid´s most unreferential narratives continue to draw their metaphysical discourse from indigenous sources. Subsequently, from this metaphysical and mystical discourse, I will investigate the way the author elaborates a new form of "faith", non subservient to the constraints often conveyed to be orthodox religious discourses. What the author calls "mystical agnosticism" is not just a matter of the re-appropriation of an indigenous discourse, but also a matter of the hybridization of sources.
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