Timeless and (Un)original : the Role of Gossip in R.K. Narayan's The Man-Eater of Malgudi and The Painter of Signs

  • James Peacock University of Edinburgh

Abstract


Tropes of gossip underline much of R.K. Narayan's work and they assume particular significance, I shall argue, in The Man-Eater of Malgudi (1961) and The Painter of Signs (1977), in which they interleave with, and describe an oppositional paradigm to, the processes of printing and sign writing.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2218/forum.01.546
Published
12-Dec-2008
How to Cite
Peacock, James. 2008. “Timeless and (Un)original : The Role of Gossip in R.K. Narayan’s The Man-Eater of Malgudi and The Painter of Signs”. FORUM: University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Journal of Culture & The Arts, no. 01 (December). https://doi.org/10.2218/forum.01.546.
Issue
No 01 (2005): Origins & Originality
Section
Articles

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