R.K. Narayan and His Social Perspective deals with the caste-ridden Hindu society which Narayan largely portrays 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 brings out vividly Narayan's attitude to life, his firm grip of ...
