Waiting for the Mahatma - Softcover

Narayan, R. K.

 
9780226568287: Waiting for the Mahatma
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0226568288 ISBN 13: 9780226568287
Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 1981

Inhaltsangabe

"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

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R. K. Narayan (1906–2001) was one of the most prominent Indian novelists of the twentieth century. Most of his stories are set in the fictional South Indian town of Malgudi, a place that Narayan populated with numerous characters. He was the recipient of many awards for his work including the National Prize of the Indian Literary Academy, India's highest literary honor. In 1980 he was awarded the AC Benson Medal by the Royal Society of Literature, of which he was an honorary member and in 1982 he was elected an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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Verlag
University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1981
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0226568288
ISBN 13 
9780226568287
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Taschenbuch
Auflage
2
Anzahl der Seiten
256
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