Mythical Elements in R.K.Narayan Man Eater of Malgudi
M.Vanisree Dr.G.Mohana Charyulu
Associate Professor, Professor
Department of English, Department of English,
S.V Engineering College for Women, K.L University,
Tirupati. Guntur.
E-mail: vanisrinivas14@rediffmail.com E-mail: gmcharyulu@kluniversity.in
“I want a story to be entertaining, enjoyable and illuminating in some way” R.K.Narayan
Rasipuram Krishna Swami Narayan is a versatile writer and one of the foremost novelists of Indian writing in English. He is contemplated as one of the Big Three – the other two being Mulk Raj Anand and Raja Rao. He opts to inscribe in English language because he was very fond of English language and his use of this language is piquancy by his Indian consciousness. He is best known creator of Malgudi, a fictional South Indian village that has been called as zany, eccentric and true to life world.
R.K.Narayan bequeathed his novel Man Eater of Malgudi to his friend, the British novelist – Graham Greene. The novel is carve up into twelve chapters and tells the story of a printer Nataraj who lives in Malgudi and squanders his time in the …show more content…
At the end Vasu dies like Bhasmasura with a blow of his first on his own head and the novel concludes with the words of Sastri as, “Every demon appears in the world with a special boon of indestructibility. Yet the universe has survived all the Rakshasa that were ever born. Every demon carries within him, unknown to himself, a tiny seed of self destruction and goes up in thin air at the most unexpected moment. Otherwise what is to happen to humanity? He narrated again for Nataraj’s benefit the story of Bhasmasura the unconquerable who scorched everything he touched, and finally reduced himself to ashes by placing the tips of his fingers on his own head”
M.Vanisree Dr.G.Mohana Charyulu
Associate Professor, Professor
Department of English, Department of English,
S.V Engineering College for Women, K.L University,
Tirupati. Guntur.
E-mail: vanisrinivas14@rediffmail.com E-mail: gmcharyulu@kluniversity.in
“I want a story to be entertaining, enjoyable and illuminating in some way” R.K.Narayan
Rasipuram Krishna Swami Narayan is a versatile writer and one of the foremost novelists of Indian writing in English. He is contemplated as one of the Big Three – the other two being Mulk Raj Anand and Raja Rao. He opts to inscribe in English language because he was very fond of English language and his use of this language is piquancy by his Indian consciousness. He is best known creator of Malgudi, a fictional South Indian village that has been called as zany, eccentric and true to life world.
R.K.Narayan bequeathed his novel Man Eater of Malgudi to his friend, the British novelist – Graham Greene. The novel is carve up into twelve chapters and tells the story of a printer Nataraj who lives in Malgudi and squanders his time in the …show more content…
At the end Vasu dies like Bhasmasura with a blow of his first on his own head and the novel concludes with the words of Sastri as, “Every demon appears in the world with a special boon of indestructibility. Yet the universe has survived all the Rakshasa that were ever born. Every demon carries within him, unknown to himself, a tiny seed of self destruction and goes up in thin air at the most unexpected moment. Otherwise what is to happen to humanity? He narrated again for Nataraj’s benefit the story of Bhasmasura the unconquerable who scorched everything he touched, and finally reduced himself to ashes by placing the tips of his fingers on his own head”