Why is acquisition of a sofesticated imported an irrelevence and inuisence for Naryan
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In 1956, Dwight Eisenhower was re-elected President of the United States. Elvis Presley made his first entry into the US music charts, with Heartbreak Hotel. Artist Jackson Pollock died in a car crash. The average cost of a gallon of petrol in the US was 22 cents, and that of a house, $11,700. The first Hydrogen Bomb was tested over Bikini Atoll. Allen Ginsberg published Howl. And Indian author RK Narayan travelled to the US for the first time.
Three years after his books were first published in the States, Narayan received a Rockefeller Fellowship to visit the country. He spent nine months travelling across the US, from New York, through the Midwest, to California, and then south as far as New Mexico, before coming up again along the east coast, back to New York. During the time, he maintained a daily journal that was never intended for publication.
At one point in the diary he says, “My own comments on all this may be out of place since I know nothing about architecture, and dare to pronounce them here only because this is my own personal diary.” But it was not just anyone’s diary, and publication was inevitable. It happened eight years later, in 1964, with the title My Dateless Diary.
In a Foreword to the 1988 edition, written more than three decades after his travels, Narayan wrote, “I don’t know how to classify this book. It is not a book of information on America, nor is it a study of American culture. It is mainly autobiographical, full of ‘I’ over a short period of time in relation to some moments, scenes and personalities.”
Three years after his books were first published in the States, Narayan received a Rockefeller Fellowship to visit the country. He spent nine months travelling across the US, from New York, through the Midwest, to California, and then south as far as New Mexico, before coming up again along the east coast, back to New York. During the time, he maintained a daily journal that was never intended for publication.
At one point in the diary he says, “My own comments on all this may be out of place since I know nothing about architecture, and dare to pronounce them here only because this is my own personal diary.” But it was not just anyone’s diary, and publication was inevitable. It happened eight years later, in 1964, with the title My Dateless Diary.
In a Foreword to the 1988 edition, written more than three decades after his travels, Narayan wrote, “I don’t know how to classify this book. It is not a book of information on America, nor is it a study of American culture. It is mainly autobiographical, full of ‘I’ over a short period of time in relation to some moments, scenes and personalities.”
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