R.K. Narayan : the novelist and his art /
R.K. Narayan occupies centre stage among Indian English writers of the twentieth century, with fifteen novels and novellas and more than half a dozen collections of short stories to his credit. He was the first Indian writer in English to win the Sahitya Akademi Award (1958). This work is a definiti...
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New Delhi, India :
Oxford University Press India,
2017.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Home-grown background. Mixed sap: a life
- I had not been false: a career
- Profundity with a light touch: a style
- The pre-independence novels. In a world dominated by adults: Swami and friends
- Live a man's life: The bachelor of arts
- Sacral space: no trespassing!
- The dark room
- Purify the mind ad clarify the vision: ordeal and aftermath
- Some eternal scheme: The English teacher and the partitive parallax
- Enchantment in life: Mr. Sampath and the Naipaul enigma
- Vice-feciton: the post-independence novels and novellas. A wizard for Malgudi: The financial expert
- The moth and the Mahatma: Writing for the Mahatma
- Grateful to love and death: the guide
- For God, country
- and comedy! The man-eater of Malgudi
- Private sorrows, Indian remedy: The vendor of sweets
- First love again! The painter of signs
- Caution! Masterful male! Talkative man
- Guru and Chela: A tiger for Malgudi
- Metal fatigue: The world of Nagaraj
- Gunas horror: Grandmother's tale
- Summing up. Cosmic comedy: R.K. Narayan's gunas comedy.