Разипурам Кришнасвами Нарайан — последние издания книг

R. K. Narayan is one of India's most valued and adored twentieth-century novelists. He takes his place alongside Graham Greene, Elizabeth Bowen and Chekhov in the pantheon of twentieth-century greats
Discover one of India's most valued and adored twentieth-century novelists, including his novel Swami and Friends.
Here are three of R. K. Narayan's most famous and best loved novels: Swami and Friends, The Bachelor of Arts and The English Teacher. All set in the imaginary Indian town of Malgudi, these irresistible works provide the perfect introduction to a universal world of humour, sadness, wisdom and joy.
Featuring one of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World.

Р. К. Нараян - один из самых уважаемых и обожаемых романистов Индии двадцатого века. Он занимает свое место рядом с Грэмом Грином, Элизабет Боуэн и Чеховым в пантеоне великих людей двадцатого века.
В романе "Учитель английского" Кришна, учитель английского языка в городе Мальгуди, изводимый чувством, что он делает неправильную работу, тем не менее в восторге от своей семейной жизни, где жена и маленькая дочь ждут его снаружи дома каждый день после обеда. Опустошенный смертью своей жены, Кришна приходит к пониманию того, чем он на самом деле хочет заниматься, и принимает решение, которое навсегда изменит его жизнь.
Книга на английском языке.
R. K. Narayan is one of India's most valued and adored twentieth-century novelists. He takes his place alongside Graham Greene, Elizabeth Bowen and Chekhov in the pantheon of twentieth-century greats.
Krishna, an English teacher in the town of Malgudi, nagged by the feeling he's doing the wrong work, is nonetheless delighted by his domestic life, where his wife and young daughter wait for him outside the house every afternoon. Devastated by the death of his wife, Krishna comes to realise what he really wants to do, and makes a decision that will change his life forever.

In the novels of R. K. Narayan (1906–2001), the forefather of modern Indian fiction, we witness the birth of a nation as it awakens to its place in the world. The three novels brought together in this volume, all written after India’s independence, are masterpieces of social comedy, rich in local colour and abounding in affectionate humour and generosity of spirit. Mr Sampath – The Printer of Malgudi is the story of a businessman who adapts to the collapse of his weekly newspaper by shifting to screenplays, only to have the glamour of it all go to his head. In The Financial Expert, a man of many hopes but few resources spends his time under a banyan tree dispensing financial advice to those willing to pay for his knowledge. In Waiting for the Mahatma, a young drifter meets the most beautiful girl he has ever seen – an adherent of Mahatma Gandhi – and commits himself to Gandhi’s Quit India campaign, a decision that will test the integrity of his ideals against the strength of his passions.

In the novels of R. K. Narayan (1906-2001), the forefather of modern Indian fiction, human-scale hopes and epiphanies express the promise of a nation as it awakens to its place in the world. The three novels brought together in this volume, all written after India’s independence, are masterpieces of social comedy, rich in local color and abounding in affectionate humor and generosity of spirit.

Mr. Sampath–The Printer of Malgudi is the story of a businessman who adapts to the collapse of his weekly newspaper by shifting to screenplays, only to have the glamour of it all go to his head. In The Financial Expert, a man of many hopes but few resources spends his time under a banyan tree dispensing financial advice to those willing to pay for his knowledge. In Waiting for the Mahatma, a young drifter meets the most beautiful girl he has ever seen–an adherent of Mahatma Gandhi–and commits himself to Gandhi’s Quit India campaign, a decision that will test the integrity of his ideals against the strength of his passions. As charming as they are compassionate, these novels provide an indelible portrait of India in the twentieth century.

R. K. Narayan (1906—2001) witnessed nearly a century of change in his native India and captured it in fiction of uncommon warmth and vibrancy. The four novels collected here, all written during British rule, bring colonial India into intimate focus through the narrative gifts of this master of literary realism.

Swami and Friends introduces us to Narayan’s beloved fictional town of Malgudi, where ten-year-old Swaminathan’s excitement about his country’s initial stirrings for independence competes with his ardor for cricket and all other things British. The Bachelor of Arts is a poignant coming-of-age novel about a young man flush with first love, but whose freedom to pursue it is hindered by the fixed ideas of his traditional Hindu family. In The Dark Room, Narayan’s portrait of aggrieved domesticity, the docile and obedient Savitri, like many Malgudi women, is torn between submitting to her husband’s humiliations and trying to escape them. The title character in The English Teacher, Narayan’s most autobiographical novel, searches for meaning when the death of his young wife deprives him of his greatest source of happiness.

These pioneering novels, luminous in their detail and refreshingly free of artifice, are a gift to twentieth-century literature.

Introducing this collection of stories, R. K. Narayan describes how in India “the writer has only to look out of the window to pick up a character and thereby a story.” Composed of powerful, magical portraits of all kinds of people, and comprising stories written over almost forty years, Malgudi Days presents Narayan’s imaginary city in full color, revealing the essence of India and of human experience.

This edition includes an introduction by Pulitzer Prize- winning author Jhumpa Lahiri.

О чем эта книга?
На первый взгляд - о любви.
Здесь есть Он и Она, вспыхнувшее при случайной встрече чувство, мучения, сомнения, радость, ревность, есть свидания, письма и предвкушение свадьбы на последней странице. Но все это - в жерновах внешних сил и прежде всего политических событий.
О политике?
Да, здесь есть митинги и листовки, яростные споры и взрывы на железных дорогах, революционеры и тюремщики, фоном для любовных переживаний героев служат тектонические события истории - в конечном счете истории мира, но прежде всего родной им Индии.
Но большая часть всего этого остается не до конца понятным нашему читателю, живущему совсем в иное время, совсем в другом мире, и требует для осмысления дополнительных знаний.
Так, может быть, это книга об Индии?
При внимательном прочтении мы действительно можем немало узнать из нее о жизни в глухой глубинке страны, о взаимоотношениях крестьян, лавочников, торговцев, об их нуждах, об их традициях, а при очень внимательном прочтении - о менталитете индийцев. Но это явно не было задачей автора. Он писал для своих соотечественников (правда, на английском языке), и этнографические подробности не были для него самоцелью.

Raju's first stop after his release from prison is the barber's shop Then he decides to take refuge in an abandoned temple. Raju used to be India's most corrupt tourist guide - but now a peasant mistakes him for a holy man. Gradually, almost grudgingly, he begins to play the part. He succeeds so well that God himself intervenes to put Raju's new holiness to the test.

В сборник англоязычной индийской прозы вошли произведения и хорошо известных советскому читателю прозаиков, и дебютантов. В этих произведениях, написанных в разных жанрах - от фантастической повести до юмористического рассказа и гротеска, - авторы поднимают животрепещущие проблемы современной Индии, по-своему осмысливают годы борьбы за независимость и раздел страны, приведший к стольким трагедиям.

Новая повесть одного из самых популярных и известных писателей Индии Р.К.Нараяна «Любитель поговорить» возвращает нас в мир индийской глубинки, о котором автор, как всегда, пишет с глубоким пониманием, любовью и добродушным юмором.