Volume : IV, Issue : VII, July - 2015

ARTISTIC TASTE IN R.K NARAYAN’S THE GUIDE: A STUDY

Mr. Raja Ram Krishna Reddy. T

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 Rasipuram Krishna swami Narayanswami Iyer or R.K.Narayan is considered to be one of the founding fathers of Indian English Novel along with Raja Rao and Mulk Raj Anand. The first Indian English Novel was written by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee in 1904 (Rajmohan’s Wife), not much significant development took place for some time in this genre, the output consisted of historical or romantic novels, the appearance of Mahatma Gandhi on the scene shifted the focus of fiction to his works and thinking, but it was actually in the period of 1930–1970 when writers like Raja Rao, R.K.Narayan, Mulk Raj Anand, Kamala Markandeya, Anita Desai, Bhabani Bhattacharya, Khushwant Singh and Nirad.C.Chaudhari and many others arrived, and tried their hands at various themes and evolution in this field began. The current group consists of writers like Salman Rushdie, Vikram Seth, V.S.Naipaul, Amitav Ghosh, Arundhati Roy, Shobha De ,Chetan Bhagat and Amish Tripathi and many others , their themes and styles are experimental and have earned them name and fame. The Guide which won for Narayan huge accolades shows the novelist’s skill in placing the orient into focus for occidental eyes. In this novel Narayan depicts a comprehensive picture of human activities, the comic and the tragic, the silly and the serious, the ridiculous and the sublime. Here we witness the spectacular representations of an ordinary man who eventually becomes a Mahatma as he begins to identify himself with the world and takes the terrible decision of sacrificing his life for a noble cause. This paper is about R.K.Narayan and his contribution to Indian English novel (IEN) so I will discuss here, his life and works, sense and style of writing, comparison with immediate contemporaries, relevance of his work in today’s world and his impressions on his readers.

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Mr. RAJA RAM KRISHNA REDDY.T ARTISTIC TASTE IN R.K NARAYAN¥S THE GUIDE: A STUDY International Journal of Scientific Research, Vol : 4, Issue : 7 July 2015


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