• Ebrahim Mohammed AbdoModalal

Alienation is one of the most important themes in literature. This paper aims to explain the meaning of alienation as Arun Joshi describes in his novels," The Foreigner" and "The StrangeCase of Billy Biswas". It also explains that the alienation is as one of the greatest problems confronting the modern man. Moreover, the alienation is considered as one of the most important themes of both novels. It explains the effects of alienation in general, and the alienation of soul in particular.Within the roles of characters especially the hero of the novel, this paper describes the agony of alienation for both individual and society. This paper aims at studying the way to bring out the love of the beauty of nature that leads to a meaningful life. Through, The Strange Case of Billy Biswas, Arun Joshi skillfully highlights that modern man feels awfully dissatisfied with his modern life in this civilization and explains the discomfort prevalent in this complacent modern community, which makes the man feel isolated and self-alienated. Joshi`s novels encourage us to view the whole world from a changed perspective. The author supports that primitivism will lead us to explain that the touch of nature will enhance our spiritual needs to gain basic and natural balance and peace. This paper aims at studying many complexities of the modern man. Joshi is considered as a post-colonial writer who portrayed the problems of identity crisis and alienation. Such the kind of study will serve to understand the nuances of predicaments of identity and alienation in the larger cultural space of India or any country in the whole world.

Arun Jushi,The Foreigner &The Strange Case of Billy Biswas,The theme of alienation in the novel.

"THE ISSUE OF ALIENATION IN ARUN JOSHI`S", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.1073-1078, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1908451.pdf

"THE ISSUE OF ALIENATION IN ARUN JOSHI`S", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp1073-1078, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1908451.pdf