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R.K Narayan (Paperback)
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R.K Narayan (Paperback)
Series: Writers and Their Work
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A detailed critical study of the leading Indian novelist in English
and a key figure in the development of a distinctive postcolonial
literature. This study covers all of Narayan's work, offering an
accessible introduction to his life and fiction with detailed
analyses of the major novels. Although the chapters take the reader
through the successive phases of his career, they are organised on
a thematic rather than a chronological basis to allow a focus on
the most significant critical issues his work raises. So, while the
introduction sketches the outline of his life, the first chapter
explores how his own background was developed into the fictional
South Indian small town of Malgudi, the setting for almost all his
work. The second chapter deals with the controversial issue of
Narayan's politics, and the common criticism of his writing as
insufficiently politically engaged. The central chapter of the book
focuses on the submerged fables that animate some of his key
novels, including his best known, The Guide. The fourth chapter
considers Narayan's attitudes toward modernity as reflected in his
essays and his fiction. Finally, there is an analysis of Narayan as
storyteller and the special styles he devised to tell his
elliptical, subtle and understated tales.
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