My Days is a book whose 17 chapters gave me ubiquitous amount of joy, pleasure and entertainment . This was the first autobiography that I read, and it was very lively. It revealed to me the beauty of enjoying life in whatever state it was just as the author, R K Narayan did. The arrangement of the chapters are in such a way that it gives every detail of the novelist's life with a refreshing and poetic touch in it.
I liked the the first few chapters really very much which conveyed the joy of being a child in an adorable fashion. With his monkey and peacock company young Narayan enjoyed the Madras sun showing off its enormous power in the form of unbearable heat in the compound of his strict and modern thinking grandma's house. After a few leisure years of pondering here and there Narayan gets admitted to a school on his way to which he keeps admiring the cityscape of the modern city of Madras and gets lost into his own world.
He then goes and lives with his parents and siblings in Mysore with the pleasant hilly climate giving in way to a new life. Here Narayan blooms into a teenager hating formal studies as well as exams and craving to read various writings of Dickens, Marie Corellei, Tolstoy, Thomas Hardy and many others. With lots of efforts he somehow manages to get the degree of B.A. giving it a second try.
Then comes in the urge to write. He starts with short stories and sends them to London for publication in English magazines and Gazettes. He has many obstacles in his path which includes finding publishers. Then comes Graham Greene to his rescue who vanishes Narayan's problem helping him start his career.
Read the book yourself. The autobiography is ornated with cartoons made by RK Laxman which will please and delighten your heart and bring in a chuckle or a broad smile across your lips.There are also many rare photographs of Narayan in this book.
Do read for your development in a wonderful and descriptive style of writing and for an amazing experience too.
I liked the the first few chapters really very much which conveyed the joy of being a child in an adorable fashion. With his monkey and peacock company young Narayan enjoyed the Madras sun showing off its enormous power in the form of unbearable heat in the compound of his strict and modern thinking grandma's house. After a few leisure years of pondering here and there Narayan gets admitted to a school on his way to which he keeps admiring the cityscape of the modern city of Madras and gets lost into his own world.
He then goes and lives with his parents and siblings in Mysore with the pleasant hilly climate giving in way to a new life. Here Narayan blooms into a teenager hating formal studies as well as exams and craving to read various writings of Dickens, Marie Corellei, Tolstoy, Thomas Hardy and many others. With lots of efforts he somehow manages to get the degree of B.A. giving it a second try.
Then comes in the urge to write. He starts with short stories and sends them to London for publication in English magazines and Gazettes. He has many obstacles in his path which includes finding publishers. Then comes Graham Greene to his rescue who vanishes Narayan's problem helping him start his career.
Read the book yourself. The autobiography is ornated with cartoons made by RK Laxman which will please and delighten your heart and bring in a chuckle or a broad smile across your lips.There are also many rare photographs of Narayan in this book.
Do read for your development in a wonderful and descriptive style of writing and for an amazing experience too.
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