Abstract

If Literature is the treatment of experience through the medium of words, the quality of the literature depends on the kind of experience handled. The works of great literary men stem from high consciousness. No literary work can achieve its true aim of expending the consciousness and increasing the awareness, if the author does not rise to the spirit and carry the creative power to kindle fire in others. Chaman Nahal, the most renowed post – Indian Historical novelist, sharpens the sensibilities of the readers by forecasting the spirit of the times.The Study highlights Nahal’s artistic skills as a novelist, his high purpse of awakening the value and faith in life, which is dormant in man He is greatly concerned with the materialistic preoccupation of modern man and the growing malaise of values. The analysis examines the above said concerns in his novels.

Key words: experience, consciousness, sensibilities, materialistic, modern.