R. K. Narayan (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)

Other Literary Forms

A prolific writer, R. K. Narayan published—besides the collections of short stories cited above—more than a dozen novels, a shortened prose version of each of the two famous Indian epics, The Ramayana and The Mahabharata, several travel books, volumes of essays and sketches, a volume of memoirs, and numerous critical essays. His novel The Guide (1958) was made into a successful motion picture, both in English and in Hindi.

Achievements

R. K. Narayan, an internationally recognized novelist and the grand patriarch of...

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