An autobiography is meant to locate those moments of being in which the self coincides with self and intuitively recognises an existential rightness and an underlying pattern. An artist though makes use of materials from his personal life, the personal element, when treated artistically, is changed beyond recognition and acquiries universal applicability. The work of almost all the novelists has its roots in their biographics. Anita Desai is one of the most powerful Indian novelists in English. She has enriched the tradition of the Indian novel in English. Her writings reveal inner realities and psychic reverberations of her characters. The present paper intends to present Anita Desai who believes more in sensibility rather than action.
Research Scholar, Dept. of English Magadh University, Bodh-Gaya.
