South lndia's most famous novelist writes about his provincial
boyhood with subtlety, deftness and control. He recalls himself as
a dreamy indolent child raising sand castles and mountain ranges in
a corner of his grandmother's Madras garden with his whimsical and
idiosyncratic first playmates, a monkey and a peacock. His gallery
of characters expands with his educational horizons to include "a
soulless body of textbook prescribers." R. K. has the good fortune
to fail his university entrance exam, however, spends a
serendipitous year in the school library exploring the world of
English literature and, with ebullient adolescent overconfidence,
begins to write. The development of his career, from first
rejection slips to stage and movie mis-adaptations of his Malgudi
novels, is recounted with ironic humor directed at poseurs,
bureaucrats, cheats and parasites - and a serene, sustaining love
for his home and family. Narayan is a gifted storyteller and
stylist, and his self-portrait of artistic genesis is in a classic,
very English tradition. (Kirkus Reviews)
"My Days" is the only memoir from R.K. Narayan. In the wryly funny style that has made him famous, he shares his life story, beginning in his grandfather's garden in Madras with a ferocious pet peacock. As a young boy with no interest in school he trains grasshoppers and scouts and then, against the advice of all, especially his commanding headmaster father, the dreaming Narayan begins to write fiction. When one of his pieces is accepted by Punch magazine, what he describes as his "first prestige publication", his life becomes gradually filled with bumbling British diplomats, strange movie moguls, evasive Indian officials and "the blind urge" to fall in love.
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