Ironical Comedy of R.K. Narayan is an exhaustive study of Narayan’s major fictions. Herein a critical and analytical study of the novels in ironical perspective has been so nicely done. The emphasis is on the satirical and caricaturish presentation of Narayan’s characters. A close study of Narayan’s expression of irony, structural design, craft of fiction, characterisation, its locale—Malgudi compared and contrasted with the Wessex of Thomas Hardy has ...
