The view from Manhattan

Chinmayee Manjunath alerts us to Wyatt Mason‘s new piece on the Master of Malgudi in The New Yorker.

“While other writers rely on paragraphs and pages to get their points across, Narayan extracts the full capacity of each sentence, so much so that his stories seem bound by an invisible yet essential mechanism, similar to the metrical and quantitative constraints of poetry”

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