A Matter of Time - 1779 by Shashi Deshpande at the heart of the Indian woman's spirit. Here, the inner life of a middle-class woman, emotionally isolated from her family, is reflected in the embryonic women represented by her daughters. It deals with the quest for a woman's identity. The novel presents a social world with complex relationships. Women are caught in a process of redefining and rediscovering their roles, their position and their relationships. The language used is the lingua franca widely used on a daily basis, to reach the ordinary woman and possibly also with the aim of making understanding easier. We can rightly assume that it is the thoughtful Indian woman that the author seeks to captivate with the problems faced by the middle class woman. Raja Rao, in his “preface” to “Kanthapura”, says: “We cannot write like English. We shouldn't do it. Shashi herself said: “My writing arises from the awareness of the conflict between my idea of myself as a human being and society's idea of me as a woman. All of this makes my writings very clearly feminine. » The story revolves around three generations of women. However, Deshpande attempts to distance herself from women's lives and perspectives by using a male narrative. What she admits is deliberate to give her a multidimensional social image. The story deals with the world of mothers, wives, daughters and their relationships with fathers, sons and husbands. The writer is mainly interested in the clash between tradition and modernity, which is reflected in the generation gap and conflicts between women. The complexities of marriage, the trauma of a disrupted adolescence, the attempt to...... middle of paper ...... Critical Spectrum (edited by: TMJIndra Mohan)3) Women in the novels of Shashi Deshpande : a Prassana study by Sarup and Sons4) Gender realities and human spaces: Jasbir Jain, Rawat publications 20035) Women's studies: N Jayapalan, Atlantic Publishers and Distributors 19926) Second sex: Simone De Beauvior7) Indian women writing in English: new perspective: Editor S. PrasannaSree: Sarup and Sons, New Delhi8) Riti, MD “There is no turning back for Shashi Deshpande” (Interview) Eves Weekly June 18-24, 1988 page 289) Rama Rao , Vimla “A conversation with Shashi Deshpande” The Journal of Indian Written in English, Vol.25 (January July 1997) page 13110) Meenakshi Mukherjee: Sounds of Silence” (Review Matter of Time) Indian Review of Books, March-April 1997 , page 2211) Shashi Deshpande, “Of concern, Of Anxieties” Indian Literature, Vol XXXIX No. 5, September-October 1996, page 99

Essay / A Matter of Time - 1779 by Shashi Deshpande at the heart of the Indian woman's spirit. Here, the inner life of a middle-class woman, emotionally isolated from her family, is reflected in the embryonic women represented by her daughters. It deals with the quest for a woman's identity. The novel presents a social world with complex relationships. Women are caught in a process of redefining and rediscovering their roles, their position and their relationships. The language used is the lingua franca widely used on a daily basis, to reach the ordinary woman and possibly also with the aim of making understanding easier. We can rightly assume that it is the thoughtful Indian woman that the author seeks to captivate with the problems faced by the middle class woman. Raja Rao, in his “preface” to “Kanthapura”, says: “We cannot write like English. We shouldn't do it. Shashi herself said: “My writing arises from the awareness of the conflict between my idea of myself as a human being and society's idea of me as a woman. All of this makes my writings very clearly feminine. » The story revolves around three generations of women. However, Deshpande attempts to distance herself from women's lives and perspectives by using a male narrative. What she admits is deliberate to give her a multidimensional social image. The story deals with the world of mothers, wives, daughters and their relationships with fathers, sons and husbands. The writer is mainly interested in the clash between tradition and modernity, which is reflected in the generation gap and conflicts between women. The complexities of marriage, the trauma of a disrupted adolescence, the attempt to...... middle of paper ...... Critical Spectrum (edited by: TMJIndra Mohan)3) Women in the novels of Shashi Deshpande : a Prassana study by Sarup and Sons4) Gender realities and human spaces: Jasbir Jain, Rawat publications 20035) Women's studies: N Jayapalan, Atlantic Publishers and Distributors 19926) Second sex: Simone De Beauvior7) Indian women writing in English: new perspective: Editor S. PrasannaSree: Sarup and Sons, New Delhi8) Riti, MD “There is no turning back for Shashi Deshpande” (Interview) Eves Weekly June 18-24, 1988 page 289) Rama Rao , Vimla “A conversation with Shashi Deshpande” The Journal of Indian Written in English, Vol.25 (January July 1997) page 13110) Meenakshi Mukherjee: Sounds of Silence” (Review Matter of Time) Indian Review of Books, March-April 1997 , page 2211) Shashi Deshpande, “Of concern, Of Anxieties” Indian Literature, Vol XXXIX No. 5, September-October 1996, page 99

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