The Very Best of R.K. Narayan: Timeless Malgudi - Softcover

Narayan, R. K.

 
9788129131027: The Very Best of R.K. Narayan: Timeless Malgudi
Softcover
ISBN 10: 8129131021 ISBN 13: 9788129131027
Verlag: Rupa Publications, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

Over a career spanning seven decades, R.K. Narayan, easily one of the most influential and important writers of India, populated the fictional town of Malgudi with a host of unforgettable characters: Swami and his gang of friends, the Talkative Man, Raju the guide and Sampath the printer, among many others. These characters have carved out a place for themselves in popular imagination and live on, still fresh and endlessly entertaining, many decades after they first appeared. Timeless Malgudi brings together a selection of the best and the most enduring of R.K. Narayan's fiction and nonfiction. The Guide examines, with wit and irony, how a man becomes a godman. The story 'A Horse and Two Goats' describes an attempt at crosscultural communication which goes haywire, with hilarious consequences. The excerpt from My Days, Narayan's autobiography, paints a poignant picture of the author's childhood while the 'Misguided Guide' is a cynical, sharply written chronicle of the making of the film Guide, based on his novel. Also included in this volume are excerpts from the travelogue My Dateless Diary and a brilliant retelling of the Tamil epic Silappadikaram.

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Verlag
Rupa Publications
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
8129131021
ISBN 13 
9788129131027
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
400
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