Abstract

DW ATKINSON ILLUSTRATIONS ON MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN AS AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL

KULDEEP SINGH MALIK

Volume: 2 Issue: 3 2012

Abstract:

D W Atkinson illustrates Midnight's Children as an autobiographical novel, projecting, grandiosely the 'macro-reality' of national concerns, as an extension of the 'macro-reality' of self. The novel looks at the Indian sub-continent through the eyes of a young man born at the stroke of the hour of Independence. The novel's narrator hero, Saleem Sinai, is one of the midnight's children of the title. Midnight is the point of time where the past and the future coalesce in the present and there is liberation from the clock-time. His private, personal actions are mirrored in public events and national affairs of his sibling India; both his life and his health are a labyrinthine tangle with those of his nation, 'mysteriously handcuffed to history, my destinies indissolubly chained to those of my country.'

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