Write and essay on 'Style of R.K. Narayan'.

Write and essay on ‘Style of R.K. Narayan’.

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Narayan’s style is such as his language ruled over the hearts of mil lions. Though his language is limited yet there is rhythm in it, the common rhythm of life, found in south India. Traditions, hobbies and absurdities, all have been brought out with humour and irony. About his style Graham Greene remarks. His prose, even as it makes its impact through the English translation, and his carefully marshalled details are so implicit with deliberate indirection and symbolic reference that the similarity the critics have tried to establish is extremely superficial. All the same. Narayan’s achievement means one very vital thing, namely, when it comes to art, even a modest language re sources used with honesty and with confidence can work the miracle.’

R.K. Narayan is a little different is style from the other Indo-Anglian or British writers. He does not play with words. His style is simple so much so that common people may comprehend. for whom Narayan has written. His creations content such matters as suitable for the middle class. Narayan’s vocabulary has a modest range and the sentence structure has always a uniformity of tone. But there is observed no such influence of intimate contact with English literature as in the case with those writers who had prevailing academic back ground. However the language of Narayan narrates human psychology and varied relationships. He has evolved a peculiar diction fit for the common Indian life; that is a medium convincing and used with full confidence.

According to William Walsh, ‘Narayan’s English in its structure and address, is a moderate, traditional instrument but one abstracted form the con text in which it was generated the history, the social condition, the weather, the racial memory and transferred to a wholly different setting-the brutal heat and hovering, jackals rippling over the rubbish dumps. on utter shining clarity of light and the deadly grew of an appalling poverty. Narayan’s language is beautiful adapted to communicate a different, an Indian sensibility’.

The critical situations in its story are handled with an extra ordinary power expression and the accuracy of words. V.Y. Kantak is of the opinion, “Great scene of Conflict between the uncle, the mother, Raju and Rosie-which breaks up Raju’s original home and ends with the angry departure of the mother. There was words are fully in tune with their task, and every movement is firmly and truthfully expressed. With similar success is handled the scene between Raju and Marco in the Peak House.”