The Financial Expert

Well, maybe you can call this a review… but it is just another of my reflections and thoughts. Narayan’s style of writing has always fascinated me, the words “lucid style” put forth by many authors for the works of Narayan, never made much sense to me. You call the style that presents the deepest of the meanings in subtlest of the ways “lucid”. Well, I do agree that the flow of the writing is fluid and the theme naive. But, only once you start looking into it do you find the connections woven throughout the book subtly, deftly and in fact really smooth.

My latest of Narayan’s work is the aforementioned title. It was truly brilliant though it cannot replace “The Guide” from the top of the list. The setting was the same (Malgudi), people similar and the protagonist leading a common middle-class life. But, the whole profile of the story reflected upon the aspect of the human character of greed, beliefs, relations, money and faith.

This can be suggested as a must read if you want a “lucid” imagery of Narayan’s Philosophies in Life, his observations on the wants and lifestyle of an average Indian family at the time of writing.