A Writer's Nightmare - Softcover

Narayan, R. K.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140107916 ISBN 13: 9780140107913

Publisher: Penguin Random House India, 2000

Synopsis

Essays discuss weddings, mathematics, coffee, umbrellas, teachers, newspapers, architecture, the caste system, and India

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

"These days everyone feels the right to comment on any subject not necessarily concerning them," notes Narayan. "I have written all the following essays because I had to." Originally published in the Hindu , an Indian weekly newspaper, these brief, conversational reflections range in topic from coffee ("For a South Indian, of all worries the least tolerable is coffee worry") to the curse of the British presence in colonial India, to the mess made of Narayan's novel, The Guide , by a gang of American moviemakers. The collection ranges equally in accomplishment: though witty and knowing, Narayan sometimes natters on, perhaps hindered, as a novelist, by the inherent limits posed by fact in journalistic form. Seemingly filling space, he comments, "A little gardening goes a long way" and "I remember I was very proud of being a scout." But when compelled to write by some more pressing need than deadline, the novelist produces a perceptive portrait of Indira Gandhi and a spirited tribute to the monkey.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Random House India
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0140107916
• ISBN 13: 9780140107913
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240