The World of Nagaraj
A Postmodern Malgudi
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9003550 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nandini Saha (University of Kalyani, West Bengal, India, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 101-112 |
| Publication date | 2007-05-23 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Commonwealth Literature (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9894 • E-ISSN: 1741-6442 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0021989407078596 |
| OpenAlex | W2095361677 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
In his last novel The World of Nagaraj (1990), R.K.Narayan re-presents the quintessential South Indian village of Malgudi, which he had created and re-created over and over again in one novel after another since its genesis in 1935 in Swami and Friends. In The World of Nagaraj the infiltration of postmodern self-reflexive metafictional elements that commingle with the portrayal of Malgudi life produces a new kind of Malgudi novel. In the novel Narayan focuses on the art of storytelling and the world of a storyteller through the protagonist Nagaraj's sole obsession with writing a magnum opus on the celestial storyteller Narada. This paper traces a very different phase in Narayan's career, which starts with Talkative Man (1986) and sadly ends with this last novel
Art · Art history · Literature · Magnum opus · Narrative · Postmodernism · Reflexivity · Sociology · Storytelling · Swami · World literature · Anthropology · History · Indian History and Philosophy · Literary Theory and Cultural Hermeneutics · Philosophy · Religious studies · Religious Studies
| Citations per year | 0.06 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2008 - 2008 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |