A Critical Study of R.K. Narayan Selecetd Short Stories
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An Astrologer’s Day, The Tiger’s Claw, Lawley RoadAbstract
R.K. Narayan is one of the best prior novelists in the Indian English literature. R.K. Narayan is considered the first and foremost an artist in his presentation of Indian life, culture and tradition. He covers the wide gamut of human experience from the innocent pranks of children to serious communal riots, misery of common man to filial relationship, superstitions and orthodox tradition to the supernatural elements. Generally it is found that R.K Narayan‟s short stories have the description of North India and imaginary place like Malgudi. The reason why generally Narayan‟s novels are known as Malgudi, is because all his characters are rich and poor, famers and feuds, teacher and student, old and young, dull and wise, good and bad, etc find their existence in Malgudi. In this research paper the researcher shall try to critically analyse the selected short stories of Narayan.
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