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Raja Rao (8 November 1908 – 8 July 2006) was an Indian-American writer of English-language novels and short stories, whose works are deeply rooted in metaphysics.
Raja Rao (born November 8, 1908, Hassan, Mysore [now Karnataka], India—died July 8, 2006, Austin, Texas, U.S.) was an author who was among the most significant Indian novelists writing in English during the middle decades of the 20th century.
Jun 29, 2020 · An understanding of Raja Rao’s (8 November 1908 – 8 July 2006) art is enhanced by a contextualization of his novels. Although Rao admitted to several Western influences, his work is best understood as a part of the Indian tradition.
India-born English novelist. Examine the life, times, and work of Raja Rao through detailed author biographies on eNotes.
Jul 15, 2006 · Raja Rao, an internationally renowned novelist who was among the first major Indian writers to cajole the English language into conveying the distinctive cadences of his native country, died on...
Raja Rao, with Mulk Raj Anand and R. K. Narayan, is generally regarded as one of the most important modern Indian English novelists. The reasons for his preeminence are both historical and...
Raja Rao. “ [Raja Rao is] perhaps the most brilliant—and certainly the most interesting—writer of modern India.” —Santha Rama Rau, as quoted in “The Quality of Presence” (WLT 62, Autumn 1988) Raja Rao (1908–2006) was born in Hassan, in what is now Karnataka in South India.
With his profound and innovative fiction, Raja Rao has enabled modern readers of English to experience the spiritual depths of Indian culture. All of his works involve a search for the fundamental reality in life, which has led him to an investigation of the very nature of writing.
Raja Rao was one of the most prominent writers in 20th-century India, known for his novels and short stories. The critic Ivar Ivask said his “greatest achievement [was] the perfection of the metaphysical novel.” Rao was born in Hassan (now Karnataka), South India in 1908.
He is profoundly metaphysical in the way he thinks and feels, and he has a scholarly background, an intimate familiarity with primary texts of Hindu, Bhuddhist, and Christian philosophies; his mastery of English vocabulary is indisputable (as is his mastery of French), and his prose is often scintillating poetry. ...
