Existentialist vision in Anita Desai’s ‘Voices in the city’

Abstract :Anita Desai is unquestionably one of the celebrated Indian English writers. The characters in the novels of Anita Desai are the representatives of self identification. Her major characters are tormented by their fears and phobias as they feel circumscribed by their frightening, conditions of their existence. Her novel ‘Voices in the city’ is existential in character, for it explores the inward subjectivity of its main characters. She has given an existential dimension to the three most vital human predicaments anguish alienation and despair. She adds a new dimension to the genre of Indian fiction in English by probing the unquestionable existentialism concern of her protagonist.