Levels of Reality in the Novels of R. K. Narayan
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R. K. Narayan (Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Narayanaswami) is now regarded as one of the greatest of Indian authors writing in English. He is the more artistic of the Indian writers, his sole aim is being to give aesthetic satisfaction to his readers, and not to use his art as a medium of propaganda or to serve some social purpose as is the case with Mulk Raj Anand. Narayan is a pure Artist and not a writer with a message. He minutely observes the life around him, and presents it objectively and artistically. Narayan keeps very close to reality, for his aim is to reveal the tragic- comedy implicit in ordinary life. His picture of life is always true to facts, but to those facts only at which a reasonable being can be expected to smile.
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