In Quest of＂Answers＂ in the Colonial Sands： A Comparative Study of Waliullah and Camus＇ ＂Absurd＂ Protagonists研究.pdfVIP

JournalofLiteratureandArtStudies，ISSN 2159-5836 November2014，Wo1．4，No．11，867-871 a LI5 H lN 6 InQuestofA‘‘nswers’’intheColonialSands：AComparative StudyofW aliullahandCamus’A‘‘bsurd’’Protagonists SanyatSattar AbuSalehMd．Raft JahangirnagarUniversity，Dhaka，Bangladesh DaffodilInternationalUniversity，Dhaka，Bangladesh SyedWaliullah(1922-1971)andAlbertCamus(1913—1960)aretwodistinctwritersfromtwodifferentcontinents． Thesewritershaveinterestingcommonness，especiallyintwooftheirnovels--ChanderAmabasya(NightofNo Moon)，byWalilullahnadTheOutsiderbyCamus．Theprotagonistsinbothofthesenovels，ArifAliandMeursault respectively，sufferfrom existentialistcrisis，mainlyfueledbytheimpactsofthetarnishedhistoryofcolonialism andhteaftermahts．Evenhtoughhtestoriesofthehteseprotagoniststakeplacealmosthalfwayroundhteworldin entirelydifferentsettings，theimpactsnadfacadesofhtecrisisarestrikinglysimilra．Thispaperisacompraative studyofsoul-searchingArifA1iandM eursault． Keywords：Existentialism，colonialism，postcolonialism，absurdiyt，meaninglessness，deaht Introduction WhenonamoonlitnightinamundaneBengalivillage，ArifAli，apooryoungschoolteacherdiscoversa halfnakedbodyofastrangledwomaninthebamboogroove，aseriesofquestionsbeginstoplaguehim：W ho killedthatwoman-- whywasshekilled———_hadthelifeofthepoorwomanofnova1ue——andsoforth ． Theentire novelrunsonthesequestionswhereArifAlisuffersfrom aterribleinternalwarofchoicesandthatputshim undertheclutchesofdanger．InaKafkaesquemanner，SyedW aliullahrevealsthefearuncertainty，andmental