The book offers a comprehensive critical analysis of Arun Joshi's novels and short stories. The central focus of Arun Joshi's fiction is in the 'self' irretrievably lost in the labyrinth of industrialized and dehumanized society. The protagonist of Arun Joshi feels helpless, isolated and dispossessed. In all five chapters off the book, the major concerns of Arun Joshi viz., existential predicament, alienation, dispossession, rootlessness, angst, ...