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OverviewR.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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Ranga RaoPublisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 14.80cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 22.40cm Weight: 0.504kg ISBN: 9780199470754ISBN 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 ![]() Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationRanga Rao is a visiting faculty at the Department of English, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, Andhra Pradesh. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |