MEANING OF (IN-)CONGRUENT TIME AND MEANINGFUL JOURNEYS IN SALMAN RUSHDIE’S THE GROUND BENEATH HER FEET AND VS NAIPAUL’S THE ENIGMA OF ARRIVAL
MEANING OF (IN-)CONGRUENT TIME AND MEANINGFUL JOURNEYS IN SALMAN RUSHDIE’S THE GROUND BENEATH HER FEET AND VS NAIPAUL’S THE ENIGMA OF ARRIVAL

Summary/Abstract: There is a well-known sentence of Salman Rushdie’s – ‘[...] the past is a country from which we have all emigrated [...]’ , – which, he explains, is truer and closer to the experience of the migrant, he who no longer has a country of his/her own, or a language and a home. The two migrant novelists, both Rushdie and Naipaul, find themselves embracing this perspective of a relation with a past that is scattered and the temptation to come and ‘add’ new history and complete, but thus change the tradition of their own culture. This relation is analysed in the present article in relation to time as well as with music and the journey, as well as the way this relation is meaningful or not.

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