Waiting for the Mahatma - Softcover

Narayan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226568288 ISBN 13: 9780226568287

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1981

Synopsis

"R.K. Narayan . . . has been compared to Gogol in England, where he has acquired a well-deserved reputation. The comparison is apt, for Narayan, an Indian, is a writer of Gogol's stature, with the same gift for creating a provincial atmosphere in a time of change. . . . One is convincingly involved in this alien world without ever being aware of the technical devices Narayan so brilliantly employs."--Anthony West, The New Yorker

"The experience of reading one of his novels is . . . comparable to one's first reaction to the great Russian novels: the fresh realization of the common humanity of all peoples, underlain by a simultaneous sense of strangeness--like one's own reflection seen in a green twilight."--Margaret Parton, New Herald Tribune Book Review

"The hardest of all things for a novelist to communicate is the extraordinary ordinariness of most human happiness. . . . Jane Austen, Soseki, Chekhov: a few bring it off. Narayan is one of them."--Francis King, Spectator

"The novels of R.K. Narayan are the best I have read in any language for a long time."--Amit Roy, Daily Telegraph

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0226568288
• ISBN 13: 9780226568287
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 256