A Story-Teller's World;Essays, Sketches, Stories - Softcover

Narayan, R. K.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140128441 ISBN 13: 9780140128444

Publisher: Penguin, 1990

Synopsis

Forty essays, travel pieces, character sketches and short stories from Indias greatest living novelist, the majority collected here for the first time. The three sections of the book. The Fiction-Writer, Short Essays and Malgudi Sketches and Stories provide a rare glimpse into R.K. Narayans beginnings as a writer and his evolution into a world-renowned novelist. More importantly, each essay and story is in itself a triumph of Narayans genius as a close and perceptive observer of the small and ordinary things of life. Finally, taken together, the pieces in this collection (on crowds, films, restaurants, clothes, cats, the English language and school-children among others) give the reader fresh insights into the distinctive aspects of the Indian South which finally achieved immortality in the fictional world of Malgudi. With an Introduction by Syd Harrex.

About this title

Synopsis:

REQUIRED, THE STORY-TELLER COULD HAVE AN AUDIENCE BUT IN THIS CASE HE WOULDN'T BE READING FROMHIS MS, BUT WOULD BE LOOKING AT THE VILLAGERS. I MUCH PREFER THE STORY-TELLER ALONE.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0140128441
• ISBN 13: 9780140128444
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160