In the story of the the image bu RK Narayan ''why was the old sculptor was going to cut off his arm and why?
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R. K. Narayan was a Twentieth century novelist writing in English but who always saw himself as a story-teller invoking older, Indian traditions. In a book of essays, sketches and stories, A Story-Teller’s World, Narayan says “all imaginative writing in India has had its origins in the Ramayana and the Mahabharata” before going on to discuss the difficulties of making a living as a novelist. Narayan says “a writer who has to complete a novel has to spend at least a year’s labour on it. This complete surrender is something that he cannot afford, "since most writers write only part-time while they have to do something else for a living.” This need for money to do proper work he sees not as the entitlement of the individual, but of the storyteller within a wider community. “I don’t know what kind of organization could achieve this purpose, but if something could be done to relieve him from the necessity of running a family, paying off bills, meeting creditors, and other such odious and devitalizing occupations, he will do his work in peace and the public may ultimately feel gratified that it has more books to read.”
Narayan writes as someone who feels the artist’s purpose is to be apart from the general social demands, but this has nothing to do with a radical position that sees the writer fighting against the culture to which he resistantly belongs, as has often been the case with 20th century western figures, but as someone whose aloofness from everyday life leads the novelist to have a deeper relationship with that culture. The writer isn’t opposed to society, but is closer than most to its ancient wisdom. As Narayan talks of the years “Tulasidas wrote the Ramayana in Hindi, Kamban in Tamil, and Kumaravyasa wrote the Mahabharata in Kannada”, he discusses how many years of their lives these writers devoted to this task, this attempt to hand down wisdom to future generations. “The completion of a literary work was marked by ceremony and social rejoicing. Economic or social considerations had no place in a writer’s life. the little he needed coming to him through royal patronage or voluntary gifts.”
Modern India has lost this reverence for literature, and perhaps for a twofold reason. India is a large country made up of numerous languages. “…there are fifteen languages in India in which writers are doing their jobs today in various regions. Every writer has to keep in mind his own regional language, the national language which his Hindi, the classical language Sanskrit…and above all else the English language which seems nearly inescapable.” Nevertheless, discussing the sale of one his books, Bachelor of the Arts, Narayan was asked about the population of his home town Mysore. Narayan says over two-hundred-and-seventy-five-thousand, and is then asked how many could read a novel like Narayan’s. Narayan reckons around five thousand, all of whom could afford the cover price, yet only about two hundred copies are sold.