R. K. Narayan's Vision of Life
The law of life can't be avoided. The law comes into operation the moment we detach ourselves from our mother's womb. All struggle and misery in life is due to our attempt to arrest this law or get away from it or in allowing ourselves to be hurt by it. A profound unmitigated loneliness is the only truth of life.
For R. K. Narayan, death is not a full stop. As he states in The English Teacher, it is more of a comma, with each hiatus leading to the birth of a new identity which replaces the previous one. But the western concept of identity as a mask is against Narayan's oriental philosophy. His protagonists do not merely play one role after the other, they live out one existence, which is not a performance but pure reality. As a Spectator review once put it, his success lies in portraying the 'extra-ordinary ordinariness' of day-to-day life.
Those who try to find existentialism, nihilism, magic realism, and all other kinds of 'ism' in Narayan's works will be disappointed, since western concepts have little to do with his vision of life. As a detailed reading shows, Narayan is steeped in Hindu philosophy, and though he discards many of its notions, he assimilates the basic truths. As he says in The English Teacher:
My knowledge of past, present and future strictly pertain to this life. Beyond that I have nothing to say, because I believe I shall once again be resolved into the five elements of which I am composed: and my intelligence and memory may not be more than what we see in air and water!
This view rules out the possibility of Narayan supporting the theory of Karma, but at the same time it is not a statement supporting the Epicurean theory of 'carpe diem' or 'seize the day'. Our dee...
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...can't be avoided. The law comes into operation the moment we detach ourselves from our mother's womb. All struggle and misery in life is due to our attempt to arrest this law or get away from it or in allowing ourselves to be hurt by it. A profound unmitigated loneliness is the only truth of life.
This view is complimented in The Vendor of Sweets:
We are blinded by our attachments. Every attachment creates a delusion and we are carried away by it.
Raju, Chandran, Krishna, and Jagan all try to escape from this law by clinging to various kinds of attachment, be it love for a woman, or for one's son but realisation does eventually come to them all.
Bibliography
Camus, Albert. The Outsider. 1942
Narayan's works referred to:
The Bachelor of Arts. 1937
The Dark Room. 1938
The English Teacher. 1945
The Guide. 1958
The Vendor of Sweets. 1967
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