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Article: Talkative man: a novel of Malgudi.
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- National Review
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- July 17, 1987
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Talkative Man: A Novel of Malgudi
byR. K. Narayan (Viking, 123 pp., $15.95)
MOST OF OUR big discoveries aremade by accident. Thus, a few weeks ago, in a casual literary conversation with friends, I suddenly realized that five out of a dozen of my favorite contemporary English-language writers have roots of one sort or another in the Indian subcontinent. I had become an unwitting "Indglophile.'
No one was more surprised than Iwas myself. Surprised, and a little aghast. On the face of it, it was as if a gourmet of some pretensions had awakened one morning to the realization that, the night before, he had washed down a four-star dinner with a ...