R. K. Narayan’s Memoir: “My Days” - A Critical Study

EMANI SATYA SAI NARAYANA TRIMURTHI

doi:10.36948/ijfmr.2023.v05i05.6203

R. K. Narayan’s Memoir: “My Days” - A Critical Study

Author(s)	EMANI SATYA SAI NARAYANA TRIMURTHI
Country	India
Abstract	“My Days” is an autobiography which tells the story of R. K. Narayan’s brought up commences with his childhood days he spent in his grandmother’s home in Chennai and his initial college years at Mysore followed by a brief stint as college teacher and in vivid details describes his journey as an author. Narayan was a leading author of early Indian literature in English. It’s his mentor Graham Greene, an English novelist-cum-journalist, who discovered potentialities in Narayan as an innate writer and he is instrumental in getting publishers for Narayan’s early books which made him a celebrated writer. He was the winner of Central Sahithya Academy award for “The Guide” which was adapted for the film (winning a Film fare Award for Best Film) and for Broadway. He chooses characters of everyday life and highlights the social context while portraying realistic presentation of contemporary society and thus standing as towering personality among Indian writers in English.
Keywords	Memoir, auto-biography, reminiscence, mirror up to nature, memories, nostalgia, recollection of past, formative days, fiction, art of writing, profundity, humour and pathos, personal experiences, imaginative writing, professional writing, promising career, heteroglossia and detached observer.
Field	Sociology > Linguistic / Literature
Published In	Volume 5, Issue 5, September-October 2023
Published On	2023-09-13
Cite This	R. K. Narayan’s Memoir: “My Days” - A Critical Study - EMANI SATYA SAI NARAYANA TRIMURTHI - IJFMR Volume 5, Issue 5, September-October 2023. DOI 10.36948/ijfmr.2023.v05i05.6203
DOI	https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2023.v05i05.6203
Short DOI	https://doi.org/gsqr5j

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