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From: New York Times Book Review[(review date 11 September 1994) Tharoor is the author of The Great Indian Novel and Show Business. In the following review, he praises the stories in Narayan's The Grandmother's Tale as "interesting and often...
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From: Ariel[(essay date January 1984) In the following essay, Ahluwalia discusses how Narayan's awareness of his audience influences his writing.] R. K. Narayan is one of those creative writers who make a living out of their...
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From: Guardian[(obituary date 14 May 2001) In the obituary below, the authors give a detailed and warm review of Narayan's work and life.] R K Narayan, who has died aged 94, was widely regarded as India's greatest writer in English...
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From: R. K. Narayan: Contemporary Critical Perspectives[(essay date 1993) In the following essay, Singh judges Narayan's work to be less engaging than that of Raja Rao and Mulk Raj Anand, two Indian contemporaries also writing in English, because Narayan is primarily a...
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From: The Journal of Commonwealth LiteratureThe first of R. K. Narayan's three volumes of short stories, An Astrologer's Day and Other Stories (1947), contains thirty pieces, all of which had previously appeared in the Madras Hindu. Thus they had been written for,...
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From: R. K. Narayan: A Painter of Modern India[(essay date 1988) In the essay excerpted below, originally published in 1988, Pousse explores the presence of the West in Narayan's works.] The West in R. K. Narayan's Novels1 In his fifties, Narayan flew to the...
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From: Irish Times[(essay date 14 July 2001) In the following essay, Battersby briefly reviews Narayan's body of work and contends the author is one of literature's most enduring voices.] At its best, contemporary Indian fiction, more...
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From: R. K. Narayan: A Painter of Modern India[(essay date 1995) In the essay below, Pousse provides extensive analysis and criticism of Narayan's novels.] Narayan would seem to get great pleasure out of merely letting his pen run freely over the white page. With...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)The most immediately striking aspects of the novels of R. K. Narayan are their spatial identity, for all take part in the imagined town of Malgudi, and their temporal continuity, for they take us from the days of the...
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From:Literature of Developing Nations for Students: Presenting Analysis, Context, and Criticism on Literature of Developing Nations (Vol. 1. )Kanaganayakam is an associate professor at the University of Toronto and has written for a wide variety of academic journals. In the following essay, he discusses the themes of irony and cosmic harmony in "An...
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From: College Literature[(essay date Oct-Feb 1992/1993) In this essay, Jussawalla proposes that the historical processes of colonization, acculturation, and decolonization in Narayan's Swami and Friends can be further explored by comparisons...
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From: Indian Readings in Commonwealth Literature[(essay date 1985) In the following essay, Amur traces Narayan's use of the symbols of the lotus pond, the garden, and the ruined temple in The English Teacher, The Financial Expert, and The Vendor of Sweets.] An...
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From: Times Literary Supplement[(essay date 9 May 1958) In the essay below, the critic provides a general overview of Narayan's works up to 1958, focusing on Swami and Friends,The Guide,The Financial Expert, and other novels.] In a front-page...
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From: World Literature Today[(essay date Summer 1981) In the following essay, Smith asserts the importance of the fictional Malgudi in Narayan's fiction.] R. K. Narayan's Malgudi has not changed much since 1935 when he wrote his first novel. It...
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From: Hindu[(essay date 16 May 2001) In the obituary below, the critic recalls Narayan's skills as a storyteller and mourns the loss of an idiosyncratic literary voice.] As a novelist, R. K. Narayan defies easy definition. On the...
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From: New York Times Book Review[(review date 12 February 1961) In the following review, Barr praises the delicacy of Narayan's comedy in The Man-Eater of Malgudi.] Each artist--if he is a true artist, and not just a utensil by means of which people...
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From: R. K. Narayan: Contemporary Critical Perspectives[(interview date 1993) In the following interview, Lowe and his fellow Fulbright scholars briefly question Narayan while visiting India in 1983.] During the summer of 1983, I had the good fortune to travel across India...