The Guide
A Classics, Asian Literature, Religion book. It seems to me that we generally do not have a...
The best of R.K. Narayan's enchanting novels"-The New Yorker Raju, a corrupt tourist guide, together with his lover, the dancer Rosie, leads a prosperous life before he is thrown into prison. After release he rests on the steps of an abandoned temple when a peasant passing by mistakes him for a holy man. Slowly, almost reluctantly, he begins to play the part, acting as a spiritual guide to the village community. Raju's holiness is put to the test when a drought strikes the village, and he is asked to fast for twelve days to summon the rains. Set in...
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- Pages: 224 pages
- ISBN: 9780143414988 / 143414984
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A man who preferred to dress like a permanent tourist was just what a guide passionately looked for all his life. You may want to ask why I became a guide or when. I was a guide for the same reason as someone else is a signaler, porter, or guard. It is fated thus. Dont laugh at my railway associations. The railways got into my blood very early in life. Engines with their tremendous clanging R.K. Narayan, The Guide // But you are not my wife. You are a woman who will go to bed with anyone who flatters your antics. Thats R.K. Narayan, The Guide // It seems to me that we generally do not have a correct measure of our own wisdom. R.K. Narayan, The Guide //
I thought I would just say "guys, read and make your own judgement"...but thought better of it:) Typical RKN's writing: decent, simplistic, with subtle humor. This is kind of the most respected of his novels. On that score, it left me a little disappointed. I actually didn't get the point of the novel. Probably the point he was making... The Guide is the story of Raju and his journey through life mostly his days in the fictional town of Malgudi immortalized by R. K. Narayan in so many ways. Raju is a young child who dislikes school, holds most people around in slight disdain and is yet inventive enough to take whatever opportunity life offers him (and he does snatch... My friend Jim Earl recently wrote an excellent article entitled "How to Read the Indian Novel." This article was the culmination of reading sixty Indian novels over a fairly short period of time. His favorite Indian novelist of the many he read is R.K. Narayan. So I picked up Narayan's "The Guide" and read it with some words from Jim...
