Last Man in Tower by Aravind Adiga: A Paratextual Interpretation

Ramdane, Kaouther; Boubaaya, Naciera

مجلة الآداب و العلوم الإجتماعية
Volume 21, Numéro 1, Pages 247-255
2024-06-27

Last Man In Tower By Aravind Adiga: A Paratextual Interpretation

Authors : Ramdane Kaouther . Boubaaya Naciera .

Abstract

The Indian author Aravind Adiga's novel Last Man in Tower (2011) describes a dispute between Masterji, a retired teacher, and Dharmen Shah, a real estate developer, for an apartment in Mumbai's Vakola city. This narrative is approached from a paratextual perspective, an attempt no one has done before. This article highlights the interactions of the paratextuality of the novel and its text in order to explore the relationship between the paratexts and the spaces depicted in the novel. This study applies Gérard Genette's paratext theory to demonstrate that Adiga's Last Man in Tower's paratextual components influence the readers’ perception and understanding of the literary work.