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Unit 11: Next Sunday by R K Narayan

5. What led Narayan to create a fantasy world, Malgudi? What is its significance? Notes
6. Have you read any other work of Narayan? If not then read it and draw comparison and
contrast between any of the two works of the author.

7. Narayan’s greatest achievement was making India accessible to the outside world through
his literature. Elaborate.
8. Write a note on Narayan as an essayist.

Answers: Self Assessment

1. True 2. False
3. True 4. False
5. True

11.9 Further Readings

Books Narayan, R K The Writerly Life: Selected Non-fiction, Penguin Books, New Delhi,
Print 2002.
Panduranga Rao. N, “The Art of R K Narayan”, Journal of Commonwealth Literature
(July-1968), New Delhi.

Online links http://boundary2.dukejournals.org/content/40/2/215.abstract
http://www.rjelal.com/RJELAL%201.2/RJELAL%201.2.%20pp%20171-174.pdf

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