TY - BOOK AU - Rao, Ranga TI - P. K. Narayan: the novelist and his art SN - 9780199470754 U1 - 823.912 RAO-R PY - 2017/// CY - India PB - Oxford University Press KW - Narayan, R. K., 1906-2001 KW - Authors, Indic KW - Novelists, Indic KW - Narayan, R. K., -- 1906-2001 -- Criticism and interpretation KW - Narayan, R. K., -- 1906-2001 N1 - This work is a definitive study of R.K. Narayan, author of fifteen novels and novellas and more than half a dozen collections of short stories. Based on his personal experiences with Narayan and his friends and relatives, Rao does detailed critical analyses of all of Narayan's works, reading them through the lens of the Indian philosophical concept of the three 'gunas' ER -