R. K. Narayan’s Memoir: “My Days” - A Critical Study

Abstract

“My Days” is an autobiography which tells the story of R. K. Narayan’s brought up commences with his childhood days he spent in his grandmother’s home in Chennai and his initial college years at Mysore followed by a brief stint as college teacher and in vivid details describes his journey as an author. Narayan was a leading author of early Indian literature in English. It’s his mentor Graham Greene, an English novelist-cum-journalist, who discovered potentialities in Narayan as an innate writer and he is instrumental in getting publishers for Narayan’s early books which made him a celebrated writer. He was the winner of Central Sahithya Academy award for “The Guide” which was adapted for the film (winning a Film fare Award for Best Film) and for Broadway. He chooses characters of everyday life and highlights the social context while portraying realistic presentation of contemporary society and thus standing as towering personality among Indian writers in English.