R.K. Narayan And His Social Perspective

R.K. Narayan and His Social Perspective deals with the caste-ridden Hindu society which Narayan presents in his novels. His Characters are fatalists—with explicit faith in the Invisible. The book presents their half-hearted attempts at self-assertion. However, their so-called sentimentalism does not bear fruit, and they fall back to their former position accepting defeat in life.
The book vividly brings out Narayan’s attitude to life, his firm grip on the Hindu ethos of which he is the product, and his failure to come out of it though the West Wind has blown much of its dust.
However detached, he sounds himself to the readers; his true spirit finds vivid expression in the book. At any rate R.K. Narayan is a thoroughly Indian Novelist par excellence, and that aspect is hard to be overlooked.