R. K. Narayan
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Major Issues Major IssuesR.K. Narayan is considered to be India’s pre-eminent English-language writer. Like Faulkner and Garcia Marquez, Narayan invents a complete fictional world, Malgudi, and sets nearly all of his stories and novels there. The universal significance of his regionalist fiction has been analyzed and lauded. Critics observe that Narayan is neither a modernist or postmodernist writer, but rather a traditional storyteller. His fiction often relates the unexpected disruptions and subsequent crises in the lives of likeable protagonists. His tales are funny, suffused with comedy and irony, but they also take up important social and political issues, such as population control, Gandhism, and the conflicts between traditional and cosmopolitan India. There have been many postcolonial studies of Narayan’s work. Author LinksR.K.
Narayan
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