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Eccentricity In Narayi Novel

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A STUDY ON THE NOTION OF ECCENTRICITY IN R.K.NARAYAN’S SWAMI AND FRIENDS AND THE BACHELOR OF ARTS. Dr. M.R.Kumaraswamy Assistant Professor of English Gobi Arts and Science College Gobichettipalayam, Tamilnadu. Email: emmarkumar@gmail.com Introduction: The term eccentricity may be defined as the state or quality of being eccentric and according to the Oxford English Dictionary it means “unconventional and slightly strange.” Eccentricity, either as a streak or as a full-fledged nature, in the cortex of Narayan’s characters, depicts the oddity or whimsicality in human nature. However, a close reading of the novels by Narayan reveal that eccentricity seems to be the novelist’s strategy to focus on life’s basic inconsistencies. At the outset the typology of eccentricity makes one aware of the rather alarming number of the eccentrics in Narayan’s novels. In fact, Narayan himself thinks that more eccentric people live here than elsewhere. One may even say that every third character in the Malgudi novels seems to be an eccentric. The eccentric characters seem to have largely contributed to populate Narayan’s novels. One cannot help being aware of their jostling and clamouring presence. They appear in diversified appearances and display divergent personality traits. The eccentric characters in the novels of Narayan may appear as a mere dot but the typology intends to deal with them in the order of their entries on the Malgudi stage. Eccentricity in Swami and Friends:

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