R. K. Narayan

R. K. Narayan was born in South India, in a fairly large family, being one of eight children. He chooses to write in English, while following in his father’s foot steps. Throughout his writing, he depicts stories of the lower middle class, in a figurative town he has made up called Malgudi, in South India. Narayan wrote the Trial of the Green Blazer, in which he uses irony often to exemplify the absurdity of the topics at hand, and to allow the audience to gain an empathetic view of the character

He has endowed the genre with healthy comedy and optimistic approach to life. Like R. K. Narayan, he does not create Malgudi village and pick up the characters from here. He chooses the human resources from the real-life metropolis. His novels go around the lives of the youth. He exactly portrays their real-life pictures and entertains all

its purposive of direction as much as of its balance sheet of achievement, deserves the attention of the serious student of Indian poetry. Today the Indian novelists writing in English are large in number. Besides Mulk Raj Anand, Raja Rao and R.K. Narayan, the three foremost Indian writers of fiction in

and ‘The Guide’ ‘Lord of the flies’(1954) and ‘The guide’(1958) are the two novels written by famous novelists William Golding and R.K. Narayan. ‘Lord of the Flies’ portrays the story of a group of British boys trapped on an abandoned island who try to administrate themselves with catastrophic results and On the other side, R.K. Narayan quite consciously in his novel “The Guide” resonances the tradition of the Indian society amidst his literal representation. R.K. Narayan’s chief apprehension

Born in 1906, R.K. Narayan was brought up in a country struggling to gain independence. ‘The M.C.C.’, an excerpt taken from the larger novel Swami and Friends by Narayan, was published in 1935, a time when Anti-British sentiments were at their height, engaging Indians from every corner of the country. In fact, Narayan himself was quoted as saying, “growing up in the first half of the twentieth century in India one couldn’t but be swept away by the rising tide of the nationalist movement,” (p. 202

Bai. Basically, Narayan draw a picture of the early 20th century India in his novel The Dark Room and that will capture the attention of Graham Greene towards India. We come to know about this when he says: "There are writers—Tolstoy and Henry James to name two—whom we hold in awe, writers— Turgenev and Chekhov—for whom we feel a personal affection, other writers whom we respect—Conrad for example—but who hold us at a long arm 's length with their 'courtly foreign grace. ' Narayan (whom I don 't

essayist known for his works set in the anecdotal South Indian town of Malgudi. Apart from Mulk Raj Anand and Raja Rao, Narayan was likewise a main writer of Indian Literature in English. Narayan is not only the most popular and prolific novelist but a short story writer too. He approaches to the Indian scene with no serious angle of study. Like other major short story writers, Narayan also comes under the influence of our ancient classic lore as well as Western masters. He shows a strong affinity to

Railway Raju is a disarmingly corrupt tourist guide, who lives by his wits and falls in love with a beautiful dancer. More by chance than skill, he seduces her away from her husband, a lonely writer who is obsessed with local rock-carvings, and transforms her into a celebrity courted by wealthy and influential dignitaries wherever she performs. Raju makes and loses a fortune, finds himself in jail, and through a series of hilarious, ironic circumstances becomes one of India’s great holy men. He accepted

R.K. NARAYAN Malgudi days is a collection of 33 short stories. It is a book by RK Narayan. Childhood is the main element of most of the stories. The stories written with Narayan’s simple style and characteristic gentle irony portray the variety and colour of Indian life. In most of the stories RK Narayan has trtied to portray the innocence of childhood. According to many readers, there is no place as Malgudi. Although the writer has not clearly written about it, he says that “Malgudi is a imaginary

R.K. Narayan is a prolific Indian writer writing in English. His fictions are greatly popular in India and abroad. Malgudi is the central focus of his imagination. This prominent place of the writer is the eternal source of the pleasures and sorrow of the characters of the novel. The writer the multitude sides of this imaginative location in almost all his novels. The characters presented in the fictions feel quite secured in the environment of Malgudi. Malgudi is really a dream for the readers.