A Horse and Two Goats and Other Stories
A Horse and Two Goats and Other Stories (also published as A Horse and Two Goats) is a collection of short stories by R. K. Narayan, published in 1970 by The Bodley Head.[1] The book is illustrated by R. K. Laxman, Narayan's brother, and includes five stories.[2] The title story is a sly narrative of a business transaction between an American tourist and an Indian goat-herder as the result of an inability to communicate to each other.[3]
This short story like other, such as "a meeting in the dark" or "death men`s path" deals with cross-cultural experiences and the clash of cultures, specifically the clash of Indian and Western cultures. Narayan uses humor to demonstrate how far apart the two worlds are. The two main characters in this story could not be more different: Muni is poor, rural, uneducated, Hindu, brown, a social outcast; the American is wealthy, urban, educated, probably Christian, and white.
References
- ^ British book news. British Council. 1970. pp. 900. OCLC 1537139.
- ^ May, Charles Edward (2001). Critical Survey of Short Fiction: Bharati Mukherjee - Mona Simpson. Critical survey of short fiction. 5. Frank Northen Magill (2 ed.). Salem Press. pp. 1753. ISBN 978-0-89356-011-9. OCLC 248496155.
- ^ Pritchett, Victor Sawdon (1981). The Oxford book of short stories. Oxford University Press. pp. 395. ISBN 978-0-19-214116-3. OCLC 8035224.
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