| Narayan: A Study in Transcendence Contributor(s): Beatina O. S. M., Mary (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820421375 ISBN-13: 9780820421377 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $53.15 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 1994 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Foreign Language Study | Miscellaneous - Philosophy |
| Dewey: 823 |
| LCCN: 93004941 |
| Series: Studies of World Literature in English, |
| Physical Information: 154 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The integration of the spiritual and the practical is the very culture and tradition of India. R.K. Narayan represents with exceptional clarity and sensitivity the Indian tradition, by presenting the interaction between mundane and transcendent aspects of everyday Indian life. Contrary to many Western notions about the Indian experience, it is only through this interaction that the full range and depth of Indian spiritual life can be represented. Many have worked on Narayan and his fiction but no one has considered the question of mundane-transcendent interactions. This book focuses on Narayan's representation of this Indian tradition and opens new ground by clearly picturing the Indianness of spirituality in ordinary daily life. |