R.K. Narayan
Paperback | Pages: 266 pages Rating: 3.82 | 2630 Users | 160 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Bachelor of Arts |
| ISBN: | 0226568334 (ISBN13: 9780226568331) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Chandran |
| Setting: | India |
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"There are writers—Tolstoy and Henry James to name two—whom we hold in awe, writers—Turgenev and Chekhov—for whom we feel a personal affection, other writers whom we respect—Conrad for example—but who hold us at a long arm's length with their 'courtly foreign grace.' Narayan (whom I don't hesitate to name in such a context) more than any of them wakes in me a spring of gratitude, for he has offered me a second home. Without him I could never have known what it is like to be Indian."—Graham Greene Offering rare insight into the complexities of Indian middle-class society, R. K. Narayan traces life in the fictional town of Malgudi. The Dark Room is a searching look at a difficult marriage and a woman who eventually rebels against the demands of being a good and obedient wife. In Mr. Sampath, a newspaper man tries to keep his paper afloat in the face of social and economic changes sweeping India. Narayan writes of youth and young adulthood in the semiautobiographical Swami and Friends and The Bachelor of Arts. Although the ordinary tensions of maturing are heightened by the particular circumstances of pre-partition India, Narayan provides a universal vision of childhood, early love and grief. "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 York Herald TribuneList Of Books The Bachelor of Arts
| Title | : | The Bachelor of Arts |
| Author | : | R.K. Narayan |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 266 pages |
| Published | : | October 1st 1994 by University Of Chicago Press (first published 1937) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. India. Asian Literature. Indian Literature. Classics |
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Ratings: 3.82 From 2630 Users | 160 ReviewsComment On Of Books The Bachelor of Arts
Rating: 4/5Friendship was another illusion like love, though it did not reach the same mad heights. People pretended that they were friends when the fact was they were brought together by force of circumstances. R.K. Narayan, The Bachelor of Arts. "Love and friendship were the veriest illusions"Above lines sum up the essence of this beautiful Book. This is my second attempt with R.K.N and as usual I must admit that; It is always a bliss to read R.K.N work.Reading R.K.N is like - Taking aThe simplicity was touching. One of the best novels by Narayan I've read till date. Gave a firm yet tingling grasp on the stoutness and unimaginable flexibility of the human mind.
It is not that Chandran, the young central character of this small Narayan novel, is lackadaisical or lazy, but crucial life decisions just happen more than result from any planning. In fact, once Chandran sees the course before him, he can be filled with passionate, even irrational, intent. He falls passionately in love with a young woman to whom he has never spoken, nor hardly ever will; he becomes a wandering ascetic for a period of time simply because that seems the proper reaction to his
Do we outgrow love? Do we outgrow hope? Do we outgrow Narayan?No!!! Never!!!Narayan's stories are the best because they are simple. Not only is Malgudi familiar to me, but I have lived many incidents that occurs there. Chandran's extensive study timetables... now who among us has not wasted many precious hours preparing those! This book too is a happy making book in a very Narayan way.
It was my first RK Narayan book...I really enjoyed reading it but was quite disappointed when I reached the end. It ended so abruptly!
I thought of reading R. K. Narayans The Bachelor of Arts as it was prescribed for GAQ exam at the Sri Jayawardenepura University. I had the privilege of reading its Sinhala translation as well.The Bachelor of Arts is the second book of a trilogy that began with Swami and Friends and ended with The English Teacher. It is again set in Malgudi, the fictional town Narayan invented for his novels.The protagonist of the novel is Chandran. The novel describes about his college life, love life and
It was my first Narayan book so obviously I was quite curious as well as excited to finally read one of the most respected Indian author of all time. And now I know why I heard about him so much for all these years; absolutely brilliant to say the least. He has put a simple small town story in such a beautiful way that you feel like being there and seeing this entire story from your own eyes. It is absolutely amazing when you get to know that it was published in 1937 and still you can connect at
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