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Rao, Ranga

R. K. Narayan: The Novelist and His Art - New Delhi Oxford University Press 2017 - 319p

Part I: Home-Grown: Background
1. Mixed Sap: A Life
2. I Had Not Been False: A Career
3. Profundity with a Light Touch: A Style

Part II: The Pre-Independence Novels
4. In a World Dominated by Adults: Swami and Friends
5. Live a Man's Life: The Bachelor of Arts
6. Sacral Space: No Trespassing! - The Dark Room
7. Purify the Mind and Clarify the Vision: Ordeal and Aftermath
8. Some Eternal Scheme: The English Teacher and the Partitive Parallax
9. Enchantment in Life: Mr. Sampath and the Naipaul Enigma

Part III: Vicefection: The Post-Independence Novels and Novellas
10. A Wizard for Malgudi: The Financial Expert
11. The Moth and the Mahatma: Waiting for the Mahatma
12. Grateful to Love and Death: The Guide
13. For God, Country-and Comedy! The Man-Eater of Malgudi
14. Private Sorrows, Indian Remedy: The Vendor of Sweets
15. First Love Again! The Painter of Signs
16. Caution! Masterful Male! Talkative Man
17. Guru and Chela: A Tiger for Malgudi
18. Mettle Fatigue: The World of Nagaraj
19. Gunas Horror: The Grandmother's Tale

Part IV: Summing Up
20. Cosmic Comedy: R. K. Narayan's Gunas Comedy

ISBN: 9780199470754

Subjects--Personal Names:
Novelists

Dewey Class. No.: 823.912 / RAO