Volume 19, No. 2, 2022
A Critical Analysis Of Anees Nagi’s Fiction
Dr. Kiran Altaf , Dr. Shahida Rasool , Dr. Razia Majeed
Abstract
"The space inside me is the space. I wanted to be real but I have been stopped. I don't know why there is still life fluid in the cells. I have paid my account. I don't have any demand... What a coincidence that I don't need myself then why insist on my presence” (Behinde the Wall, Anees Nagi) Anees Nagi has a distinct identity among the representative novelists of Urdu due to his existential uniqueness. In his novels, the depiction of consciousness of the human condition is surprisingly clear, i.e. completely beyond any ambiguity. Despite this, Nagi Sahib (it is currently difficult to write about the late Nagi Sahib due to personal need. By the way, his death has also opened up some new dimensions of understanding of his art) one-sided, spot-on. They avoid realism and their text is full of meanings. In this regard, he has used Western existential novelists Kafka, Sartre and Camus etc. more than the Urdu novel tradition. His personal creative output and dynamism are also exemplary, but it is a sign of his fascination with western fiction that the same atmosphere and characters appear here in some places. These similarities of style and theme are in their place, but the way in which Nagi has integrated the history of the subcontinent and Pakistani society in his novels opens up the ways of understanding the existential situation of the local people, which is even hinted at in the rest of Urdu fiction.
Pages: 9881-9885
Keywords: Anees Nagi's first novel 'Behind the Wall' was described as a 'creative narrative of human existential anguish'.