M.Ondaatje's Novel "The English Patient"

Bloodshed and brutality are the things that the contemporary century is notorious for. What a cruelty and an injustice we have undergone! The terror of war is indescribable! Only hearing about it is certainly not enough. Very few of the contemporaries would be able to express their pain and dissatisfaction with the XX century, namely about “people who fall into the gaps between cultures”1 in the way like it has been done by Michael Ondaatje in his novel “The English Patient”. Without working out any special plot or nurturing ideas, a very powerful and pathetic representation of the contemporaries has been carried out by the author. In spite of the traditionally postmodernist chaotic reflection of the events from different angles, the picture of the doomed wartime people has been presented. Although the plot has been set solely on the remembrances about war, as well as on philosophical speculations about it and purposeless future, the tragic lives of the characters have been disclosed. Although anything and anyone in the discussed novel has to do with war. Unfortunately people have not been set free from it and its impacts, and the conclusion that the author has made, is that not only the protagonist is maimed - all the rest of the heroes will remain crippled to the rest of their lives. With the exception of Kip, though. Who has nothing to do with Europe. Who has come from the fresh and evergreen gardens of India. Who does not know anything about deserts… And, therefore, who is capable of seeing their history more soberly and prudently. Our history, in fact.…