Games at Twilight (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Anita Desai
- First Published: 1978
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: The 1970's
- Setting: A large city in India
- Principal Characters: Ravi, Raghu
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: 1970’s, Children, Twentieth century, Alienation, Jealousy, envy, or resentment, Asia or Asians, Brothers, Reality, Fantasy, India or East Indian people, Boys, Games, Summer, Heat
- Locales: India
The Story
This title story in Anita Desai's acclaimed collection Games at Twilight, and Other Stories (1978) deals with a universal theme of children at play and their fantasies and disillusionment. Desai begins the story objectively from the third-person vantage, but as the action progresses and the tension mounts, she skillfully shifts the narrative focus to the consciousness of the central character, Ravi. The story is remarkable for its insights into child psychology, powerful evocation of atmosphere, vivid imagery, and symbolic use of setting.
The story opens...
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