Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, University of Augsburg (Philologisch Historische Fakultat), course: Refugees in Literature and Film, language: English, abstract: In her novel "Baumgartner's Bombay' Anita Desai confronts the reader with a protagonist whose life is a chain of happenings not intended, wished for or fought against by him. It seems Hugo Baumgartner is not even aware of the probability that his own willful intervention into the course of his personal history could change matters for him. When he is...