International Journal of Research in Social Sciences
  • Year: 2012
  • Volume: 2
  • Issue: 4

Narrative technique in a handful of rice

  • Author:
  • Tarun Kumar Yadav
  • Total Page Count: 5
  • Page Number: 362 to 366

Research Scholar, Department of English, Lalit Narayan Mithila University, Darbhanga

Online published on 8 October, 2013.

Abstract

The novelist, Kamala Markanday, was born in Mysore in 1924. She was admitted in Madras University at the age of sixteen. She went to England in 1948, but was unproductive in attainment of a job as a journalist. She was awarded the National Association of Independent Schools Award (USA) in 1967 and the Asian Prize in 1974.

As a matter of fact, the narrative technique in Kamala's novels is exceptionally fine. The authoress describes the illusory world she has created. She tells us everything about her characters. We unmistakably feel their behaviour, thoughts, feelings, psychology etc. She has created a set of characters about whom she is expected to know everything, but the human psychology is so multifaceted that it is unattainable for one person to know everything about an assemblage of characters even though he himself has created them. She competently fulfils this responsibility here.

The describing in this novel is in the third person. The novel has unexpected commencement, even narration, practicality, lyrical gorgeousness etc.

So the research paper would undertake to elucidate the technique of the telling of this novel.

Keywords

Illusory, thoughts, lyrical, practicality, multifaceted, competently