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The plot revolves around the life of an Indian printer named Nataraj, who lives in a huge ancestral house in Malgudi, a fictional town in south India. He leads a contented lifestyle, with a circle of friends, including a poet, a journalist named Sen, and his sole employee, Sastri.
- R. K. Narayan
- 1961
- Natraj’ The Owner of Press
- Natraj’s Family and His Ancestral House
- Natraj’s Companions
- Vasu’s Arrival
- Aggressive Behaviour of Vasu
- The Forest Officer’S Visit and Publications of His Book
- Vasu’s Compulsion to Visit Mempi Village
- Killing of The Tiger by Vasu
- Vasu’s Reluctance to Vacate The Attic
- Problem of Natraj and The Attitude of The Lawyer
The setting of the novel is done in Malgudi, South India. The press consisted of two rooms. The front room served as a parlour where the friends of Natraj visited and took rest. Customers also sat there. Between the press and the parlour there hung a blue curtain which served as a partition wall. This was seen as a sacred tradition of the Press. Na...
Natraj’s house was behind the press. A road, divided the press in the market road and his house in the Kabir Street. His house was an ancestral house and the legal divisions of the ancestral property occured during the lifetime of his father. After the death of his father his mother shifted to Natraj’s elder brother in Madras. Thus, Natraj, his wif...
Natraj’s friends includes the poet, the journalist Sen, Sastri who typed. printed, sewed, ruled and binded Natraj had a relationship of an employer and employee. As they were discussing the mistakes of the government in the parlour, a customer came in the press with the name Vasu and gave a big order.
One day when Sastri did not come to the press. Natraj was doing all his work alone in the press. It was Vasu who broke the sacred traditions of the press by peeping through the curtain and then entering the press, Vasu wanted that Natraj should print five hundred sheets of letter heads and five hundred sheets of visiting cards. Natraj was excited t...
The attic room of Natraj consisted of old newspapers, stacks of waste-paper. There were also dust and mosquitoes. Vasu showed aggressiveness as without taking the consent of Natraj he brought four workmen to clean the floor, whitewash the walls and after a couple of days he brought a bedstead and a few pieces of furniture. The attic room was extend...
It so happened that one day Vasu brought a forest official to the press who wanted to get his book Golden Thoughts printed, but the deal never materialised. Later Vasu received a brown envelope from the Forest Department which permitted him to shoot ducks and deer but forbidding him to shoot tiger and other larger animals. Vasu at once turned an en...
Later Vasu forced Natraj to go with him in his jeep to Mempi village. He went with Vasu much against his wishes as he was very busy at that time. He was working at some invitation cards for the marriage of the lawyer’s daughter. He wanted to deliver these cards in time. But Vasu being aggressive took him to his jeep. At Mempi village Vasu came to k...
Vasu came back and happily showed to Natraj the tiger which he killed in the Mempi forest. The tiger was ten feet long and the head alone was almost eighteen inches wide. He did this killing without any legal permission and was not at all ashamed of it, instead he felt proud that he dodged the forest department and they would not be able to take an...
Natraj came to know the source of the smell about which everyone had complained. The room was filled with the skins of stuffed animals. Natraj wanted to turn him out but Vasu did not care for him at all and was living comfortably. He continued bringing dead animals, stuffed carcasses, packed them and sent them off to different places through the ra...
Vasu reacted indifferently to Natraj’s request and after five days Natraj received summons from the House Rent Controller to appear in his court at a fixed date and time. He received it officially and signed the delivery note, but on reading it he was frightened. He hid the summons and did not talk about it to anyone, but as the fixed time for appe...
Jun 22, 2021 · The Man–Eater of Malgudi is a novel written by R. K. Narayan. Summary. The story rotates around the life of an Indian printer Nataraj who lives in a massive ancestral house in Malgudi, a fictional town in South India. Surrounded by Mempi hills, the beautiful town is tranquil and pleasing.
The titular man-eater is not an animal but a man, Vasu, who has no limits of contrition and compassion and is consumed by guilt, gore and pleasure-seeking. The story has a detailed plot with a diverse cast of vivid characters.
This is the story of Nataraj, who earns his living as a printer in the little world of Malgudi, an imaginary town in South India. Nataraj and his close friends, a poet and a journalist, find their congenia l days disturbed when Vasu, a powerful taxidermist, moves in with his stuffed hyenas and pythons, and brings his dancing-women up the ...
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Aug 5, 2013 · The man-eater of Malgudi. by. Narayan, R. K., 1906-. Publication date. 1961. Topics. Malgudi (India : Imaginary place) Publisher. New York, Viking Press.
