• Tanuri Durga Bhavani
• Dr. K. Usha

Indian English fiction started exploring contemporaneous concerns in the Gandhian era. Many Indian novelists began setting a saga of romances and tales particularly in a politically and socially recognizable context. Indian authors have created their own brand of writing in English by representing Indian culture and ethnicity in their best ways. Arun Joshi is an Indian –Anglican writer. He is one of the most significant contemporary Indian English novelists. Joshi is well known for his five novels which explore the throe of contemporary man in the materialistic world. In 1982 he won Sahitya Akademi Award for The Last Labyrinth. Joshi’s fictional technique varies from his predecessors and brings uniqueness to his novels. The quest for meaning in life is the central theme of his best works .His novels deal with the sense of meaninglessness of life which is the dominant feature of modern man in the contemporary epoch. Arun Joshi’s fictional world is a revelation of a world where man realizes his uniqueness and loneliness and is also confronted by the question of his existence.

Indian culture, ethnicity, contemporary, materialistic, quest, loneliness, meaninglessness, existence

"QUEST MOTIF IN THE NOVELS OF ARUN JOSHI :THE APPRENTICE AND THE LAST LABYRINTH", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 8, page no.640-642, August-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRA006113.pdf

"QUEST MOTIF IN THE NOVELS OF ARUN JOSHI :THE APPRENTICE AND THE LAST LABYRINTH", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 8, page no. pp640-642, August-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRA006113.pdf