The Guide : Review
The Guide: A Brief Review R.k.Narayan gentle,subtle humour delights and his narrative style enthrals us. R.K.Narayan writing style and language is formal and so simple.It doesn’t hit the readers with the pompous and boring long paragraphs as we see in other authors.Gentle humour ,subtle irony , Indianness and Indian middle class themes are his prime arms and ammunition. His novels serves no social purpose and not intend to correct the society .his only aim is to serve more aesthetic unlike his contemporaries. As we know that Mulkraj Anand had tremendous influence of rapid industrialization and modernisation and its ill effects on society R.k.narayan never bothered about these things. Story in the novel " The Guide" is narrated by the hero Raju, (i.e the first person point of view)famously called Railway Raju. The novel...