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Book review of the guide 1

Saraogee Apoorv Saraogee Dr Aparna Rayaprol Contemporary India July Book Review The Guide by RK Narayan The Guide by RK Narayan is a very interesting book about the metamorphosis of this man named Raju Raju went through three stages in his life ?? as a tour guide as a manager of a dancer and then ?nally a spiritual guide The dancer Rosie Nalini caused him to shift into his manager role and then going to jail transformed him into a spiritual guide The book exhibits a lot of Indian culture and it is set in a ?ctional town called Malgudi near Madras or Chennai In fact it was very interesting to see that a lot of the words were left untranslated like ? dhobi ? to show that a lot of the words can ? t be understood by outsiders without understanding Indian culture What I found to be especially unique about this book from other books was how names were not given any importance in the book There are many characters that are left unnamed like the layer or the shopkeeper Moreover even the surnames are not mentioned for any characters except for a foreigner named James Malone perhaps to emphasize that he didn ? t belong with the Indians Narayan is challenging the western notions about giving you all the names of the characters and showing that a novel can be completely written without giving you all the information about the characters Raju ? s name changes throughout the book to show his transformations throughout the book As a tour guide he is called ? Railway Raju ? As the dancer ? s manager he is called ? Raj ? as if he is a king Then ?nally he is known as ? Swamiji ? The dancer in the book also changes her name from Rosie to Nalini in order to be better accepted as an Indian classical dancer It was to become more traditional In the book there is also a character named Marco who is Rosie ? s estranged husband Marco is not his real name Raju CSaraogee gives him this name because he thought he looked like he was about to go on an expedition This further shows how Narayan is trying to convey that the name is not important The manner in which the book is written is also very unique The back and forth from past and present gets the reader to draw parallels between Raju ? s past and present It further emphasizes how Raju ? s ? essence ? doesn ? t change throughout the book He is always some form of a guide whether a tour guide or a personal manager or a spiritual guide If the story was linear then it would have been much harder for the reader to relate between all of these three portrayals of Raju Narayan goes between third person and ?rst person throughout the book as well The ?rst person point of view gives