Author(s): Adithi Shastry Kallaje

Abstract: Resistance to a Utopian world is often seen in most of the works in Modern fiction. The complicated relationship between the ideal and the real becomes a source of argument for and against the genre Utopia or even Dystopia. In the recent times one can find a rise in the publication of dystopian novels. Although there is evidence to prove that it is a twentieth-century phenomenon, it is interesting that the genre seems to grow stronger day after day. This article explores dystopia as a subversion of Utopia in the selected novels of Upamanyu Chatterjee, The English August: An Indian Story, The Mammaries of the Welfare State, The Last Burden, Way to Go, Weight Loss.

Keywords: Dystopia, Utopia, Decadence, degeneration, alienation

Article Info: Received: 18 Jan 2021; Received in revised form: 19 Mar 2021; Accepted: 03 Apr 2021; Available online: 27 Apr 2021

DOI: 10.22161/ijels.62.55