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| Original Title: | Bachelor of Arts |
| ISBN: | 0226568334 (ISBN13: 9780226568331) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Chandran |
| Setting: | India |
R.K. Narayan
Paperback | Pages: 266 pages Rating: 3.82 | 2630 Users | 160 Reviews
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| 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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"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 GreeneOffering 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 Tribune
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Ratings: 3.82 From 2630 Users | 160 ReviewsAppraise Of Books The Bachelor of Arts
"You lived in the college, thinking that you were the first and the last of your kind the college would ever see, and you ended as a group photo..." While I was reading this masterpiece from Narayan, there was only one question that haunted my mind: "What is in his writing that gives me so much pleasure?"I first thought that it was its simplicity. But, is it the "simplicity"? No it can't be, and perhaps it shouldn't be. For simplicity reeks of a prose that is written in a very simple manner, aDo 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.
Bachelor of Arts is a book written by R.K.Narayan. It was published in 1937 and consists of 166 pages. This is a story of a boy named chandran . The story starts with his Bachelor life and who has taken the subject history and lives a disciplinary life. As he is of a modern view so he aspires to change the mindset of many people. His Bachelor life revolves around his friends and family, where he spent most of the time with his companion Ramu. In this novel the complexities of marriage in Indian
The second of the four 'Malgugi' novels in the Everyman's Library Edition anthology.As I began 'The Bachelor of Arts,' I thought it less affecting than 'Swami and Friends,' but then R.K. Narayan's seemingly guileless and unassuming prose worked its magic. The myopic, self-centered world view of its protagonist, Chandran, a spoiled and self-indulgent upper middle-class college graduate unsure of his place in the world, could have quickly made his follies and foibles tiresome. Narayan, however,
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!
There was nothing yet everything in this book. Such a simple story; yet it was a soothing and calming experience to read this book.
NEVER has something so simple given me so much joy. The book is so charming and captures British Indian life in a very realistic way. The book is so relatable , mundane things which we would never think of come of as something so relatable and reading this book was a lovely experience :)
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