Khafeef Makhfi Ki Khwab Beeti: The Dilemma of Novel and Biography
Keywords:
Parapsychology, Autobiography, world of novel, Anpsi, ESP, OBEAbstract
Mirza Athar Baig is a unique and unconventional novelist of Urdu. Each of his works of art constructs a new world. On top of that, his works also change the way we look at the world. His writings seem to be the stories of an adventurer, always trying to discover a new world. In 2022, when his novel Khafif Makhfi Ki Khwab Beeti came out, readers felt this was a new (and temporary) stop for his writing. The characteristic of his fiction writing is to create a new whole by combining the insights gained from literature, social, sciences, and humanities and more than that from various arts. This time, they make a novel subject of knowledge, which does not fall under the classification of pure sciences, but beyond the empirical world of extraordinary events and sensory perception, which haunted humans for a long time. This novel deals with supernatural beings and events that are disturbing. It has been constructed as a play between autobiography and novelistic genres while engaging skeptically with Western forms of knowledge and local belief systems regarding paranormal activity.
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