The Ironic Perspective in R.K. Narayan’s Novels

Abstract

The key note of R.K. Narayan’s interest is his minute observation and subtle ironic harmonious way of telling his story. Humour of Narayan is the direct course of his intellectual analysis of the contradictions in human experience tragically or comically. But this view of irony raises some issues which require explanation. The basic feature of every irony is a contrast between a reality and its appearance. We get a glimpse of the complexity of life in his novels through irony of motives, characters, situations and ideas. He is the pioneer in the tradition of ironic realism in Indo-Anglican fiction.