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    R.K. Narayan was an Indian author who wrote in English. This document discusses his 1952 novel "The Financial Expert" and his writing style. The novel takes place in the town of Malgudi and focuses on the character Margayya, a financial expert. It explores Margayya's aspirations and psychological character. Narayan uses a third-person limited perspective centered around Margayya's thoughts. His writing style uses simple, clear English without complex metaphors. Critics praise how he is able to communicate an Indian sensibility through a modified English language.

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    R.K. Narayan was an Indian author who wrote in English. This document discusses his 1952 novel "The Financial Expert" and his writing style. The novel takes place in the town of Malgudi and focuses on the character Margayya, a financial expert. It explores Margayya's aspirations and psychological character. Narayan uses a third-person limited perspective centered around Margayya's thoughts. His writing style uses simple, clear English without complex metaphors. Critics praise how he is able to communicate an Indian sensibility through a modified English language.

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    R.K. Narayan was an Indian author who wrote in English. This document discusses his 1952 novel "The Financial Expert" and his writing style. The novel takes place in the town of Malgudi and focuses on the character Margayya, a financial expert. It explores Margayya's aspirations and psychological character. Narayan uses a third-person limited perspective centered around Margayya's thoughts. His writing style uses simple, clear English without complex metaphors. Critics praise how he is able to communicate an Indian sensibility through a modified English language.

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    In Reference to
    “THE FINANCIAL EXPERT”

    SUBMITTED TO SUBMITTED BY
    MRS. ALKA MAM NIDHIKA JAIN
    B.A. ENGLISH HONS. (3rd Year)
    2293820016
    ABOUT THE AUTHOR
     Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer
    Narayanaswami (October 10, 1906 -
    May 13, 2004), who wrote under the
    name R.K. Narayan was an Indian
    author who wrote in English. His works
    include novels and short stories.
     His best known works include The
    Bachelor of Arts (1937), The Dark Room
    (1938), The English Teacher (1945), The
    Financial Expert (1952), The Guide
    (1958), The Man-Eater of Malgudi
    (1961), The Vendor of Sweets (1967),
    Malgudi Days (1982), and The
    Grandmother's Tale (1993).
     The Financial Expert is a 1952 novel by R. K. Narayan. It takes place,

    as do many other novels and short stories by this author, in the town

    of Malgudi. The central character in this book is the financial expert

    Margayya, who offers advice to his fellow townspeople from under his

    position at the banyan tree. He is a man of many aspirations and this

    novel delves into some level of psychological analysis.The Financial

    Expert tells the story of the rise and fall of Margayya.


     The theme of the novel is lust for money. But Margayya is no monster

    of greed and wickedness. In his depiction of Margayya, Narayan

    humanises him and shows that despite his lust for money, he is still a

    human being.
    The novel uses a third-person limited
    STYLE

    perspective to tell Margayya’s story. For
    the most part, the novel focuses on telling
    events in Margayya’s life from the
    perspective of Margayya himself. Of all
    the characters in the novel, Margayya is
    the only character whose interior thoughts
    are represented in the novel. There is a
    clear example of this imposed limitation at
    the end of the novel, when Narayan
    describes in Part Five Margayya’s
    angered ravings as he goes to see his son:
    “ ‘What right has that fool to make me
    walk to him at this house? It is sheer
    nonsense, why should I go there?’ he
    asked himself suddenly. ‘Share of the
    property! Accursed fool! What share—I
    gave him the right answer.
    He has every right because he has more money,
    authority, dress, looks - above all, more money. It's
    money which gives people all this. Money alone is
    important in this world.“
    Importance: This Novel reflects Margayya's
    absolutist thinking when it comes to money. Here,
    he believes that not only is money "important," but
    that it "alone is important in this world." This kind
    of thinking shifts the emphasis away from what
    experiences and relationships, pleasures and joys
    money can help one find, towards the pursuit of
    money itself, as the goal in and of itself.
     “Well-deserved as such tributes are, one sometimes has the
    uncomfortable feeling that the Western critic may be inclined
    to see far too much in this success. It is true that Narayan’s
    success is never to ignore his instinct for limitation. He rarely
    attempts to charge his meager words with what they are
    unable to carry. In this respect, one must take note of a
    gradual development in Narayan’s art of story-telling. In the
    earlier work, as in the short stories, the whole action often
    hinges on an amusing turn of event to be narrated with his
    inimitable mixture of gusto and irony. The words do not have
    to carry a strong emotional charge.
    Narayan can do all this without forcing the normal
    tone and structure of English and within the most
    ordinary gamut of words which retain their original
    lucidity and force. This has won Narayan high praise.
    For example, William Walsh writes, “Narayan uses a
    pure and limpid English, easy and natural in its run
    and tone, but always an evolved and conscious
    medium, without the exciting physical energy –
    sometimes adventitiously injected – that marks the
    writing of the West Indians.
    Narayan’s English in its structure and address is a
    moderate, traditional instrument but one abstracted
    from the context in which it was generated – the
    history, It is clear of the palp-able suggestiveness, the
    foggy taste, the complex tang, running through every
    phase of our own English. Instead, it has a strange
    degree of translucence. Narayan’s language is
    beautifully adapted to communicate a different, an
    Indian sensibility.”
     Narayan's skilful use of language suits to his themes and
    techniques His thinking process is synchronized with the
    language he uses.
     He uses pure and limpid English, devoid of any suggestive
    epithets and intricate metaphors, easy and natural in its run
    and tone.
     The laughter he evokes is genuine and simple The
    underlying secret irony of his language is smooth and gentle
    which generates affluent humor and life. Brilliant
    combination of satire with humor is expressed by him to
    depict laughable foibles of human nature.
     Like the traditional story-teller he instructs in a mild way,
    but does not indulge in social criticism.
     He is ot capable of depicting intensity of emotions or
    imaginative or evocative descriptions.
    THANK
    YOU

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