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Jayanta Mahapatra (1928-2023), a bilingual poet from Odisha, India, wrote prolifically both in English and Odia and was internationally acclaimed. His work has been variously interpreted from the perspectives of his experiments with language as well as use of modern techniques in poetry, his rendering of harsh reality including exploitation and injustice inflicted on the downtrodden, his urge for a total identification with his land and others. Keeping aside Mahapatra's experiments with technique and language, the present book focuses on his relentless self-search alongside his assessment of the outer reality, the nature of his anxieties as revealed in his poems published since 1976, his ethical standpoint and the ongoing conflict between reason and faith suggested through his work. The poet emerges as an eternal traveller searching for truth and love. In the five chapters of the book all these aspects of his poetry have been discussed, with a particular focus on his anxiety that is close to ""existentialist angst"" and his capacity for immense love that saves him from lapsing into pessimism. Finally, his search for truth has been equated to that of some sages in the Upanishads.

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Dr. Santwana Haldar, a retired professor, taught in the government colleges of Odisha since 1978. She was awarded the Ph. D. degree by the Burdwan University, W. B., in 1979. Besides supervising eleven scholars who were awarded the doctorate degree by different universities, she was Associate Editor of The Atlantic Literary Review, New Delhi, and has been editing an annual journal, Journal of the Odisha Association for English Studies, Balasore, since 2011. She has to her credit 14 published books and about 75 research articles published India and abroad. Among her books there are T. S. Eliot: A Twenty-first Century View (Atlantic Publishers, New Delhi), The Fictional World of Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Prestige Books International), New Delhi), Lord of the Flies (Atlantic Publishers, New Delhi), Fakir Mohan Senapati and his Fictional World, (Prestige Books International, New Delhi), The Plays of T. S. Eliot, (Sarat Book House, Calcutta), Ten Nobel Laureates (Image Publications, Bhubaneswar) and others. One Odia book on Fakir Mohan Senapati was also published by her. An erudite and perceptive critic, she has specialized in postcolonial and postmodern literature and theories.

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