R.K. Narayan's "A Story-Teller's World"

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"R.K. Narayan in his book "A Story-Teller's World" writes about his own world, his role as a story-teller in Indian society, the nature of that society, the life of the people, and the way the story-teller takes the details of that world and transforms them through narrative. The nature of story-telling is the primary issue, and each essay in the book should be seen as a separate story. These are fact-based stories, but how the writer shapes them gives them their meaning, their effect, their reason for existence.
In the first essay in the book, Narayan discusses precisely the art of the story-teller and the way in which the story-teller uses language, stock characters and situations, symbols, and the elements of life to entertain and enlighten. Narayan is talking here specifically of a certain type of traditional narrative that ... "

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