101 Letters to a Prime Minister (2012)
“K. NARAYANDecember 21, 2009 To Stephen Harper,Prime Minister of Canada,If only we really were experts,From a Canadian writer,With best wishes for Christmas and the New Year,Yann Martel Dear Mr. Harper, R. K. Narayan is the mercifully shortened nom de plume of Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Narayanaswami. He was Indian and lived from 1906 to 2001. If you’ve never heard of Narayan, look at the commendations on the back of the book I’m sending you this week, the novel The Financial Expert, and you wi...ll see the kinds of writers with whom Narayan is classed: Tolstoy, Henry James, Chekhov, Turgenev, Conrad, Gogol, Jane Austen. One commentator makes mention of the Nobel Prize, which Narayan never obtained but would have well deserved. I remember reading an interview with Narayan in an Indian newspaper on my second visit to India and feeling a sense of privilege that I was in his country while he was still alive. R. K. Narayan was a gentle giant of English-language literature.
Like William Faulkner with his apocryphal Yoknapatawpha County and Thomas Hardy with his semi-fictional Wessex, Narayan invented a place, the town of Malgudi, and then spun fictional tales about it, but all so that he might speak about real life.MoreLess
Like William Faulkner with his apocryphal Yoknapatawpha County and Thomas Hardy with his semi-fictional Wessex, Narayan invented a place, the town of Malgudi, and then spun fictional tales about it, but all so that he might speak about real life.MoreLess
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