R.K. Narayan: The Novelist and His Art

Author:   Ranga Rao
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780199470754


Pages:   344
Publication Date:   05 January 2017
Format:   Hardback
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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 definitive study of the man and the writer. Ranga Rao presents an intimate picture of Narayan, based on his personal experiences with the Narayan himself and his friends and relatives. Rao does detailed critical analyses of all of Narayan's novels and novellas, reading them through the lens of the Indian philosophical concept of the three 'gunas' (quality or virtue): 'sattvic' (harmonious), 'rajasic' (passionate), and 'tamasic' (chaotic). Ranga Rao post-scripts his critique with wide-ranging endnotes, offering plenty of facts and filiations, drawn from critics as well as friends and interviewers of Narayan, and from the novelist's own non-fictional works.

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Author:   Ranga Rao
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 22.40cm
Weight:   0.504kg
ISBN:  

9780199470754


ISBN 10:   0199470758
Pages:   344
Publication Date:   05 January 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Ranga Rao is a visiting faculty at the Department of English, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, Andhra Pradesh.

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