Anand, Mulk Raj
(b. 1905), Indian writer. An influential Indian novelist and short story writer in the mid-twentieth century, Mulk Raj Anand was born in 1905 in Peshawar, now in western Pakistan, and ...
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The novelist Mulk Raj Anand often spoke of the double burden carried by Indian writers who choose English as their literary language. On the one shoulder, Anand contended, sat the Alps of European tra...
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Critical Essay by E. M. Forster
This remarkable novel [Untouchable] describes a day in the life of a sweeper in an Indian city with every realistic circumstance…. Avoiding rhetoric and circuml...
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Critical Essay by Margaret Berry
In attacking Indian institutions, Anand employs, in his novels, direct and indirect means. Direct assault occurs in the author's own commentaries and, in narra...
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Critical Essay by Krishna Nandan Sinha
The first three novels of Mulk Raj Anand—Untouchable, Coolie, and Two Leaves and a Bud—are in a class by themselves. They not only present a mirro...
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Critical Essay by M. K. Naik
In Anand's [short stories, the qualities of lyric awareness and a compassionate sense of humor] are supplemented by a deep awareness of both the strength and the l...
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Critical Essay by R. T. Robertson
In Commonwealth literary studies we know that certain early works in a national literature create a figure and a pattern of events which are then repeated in variati...
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Critical Essay by Shyam M. Asnani
[The twenty-two stories in Selected Short Stories of Mulk Raj Anand are divided] into five groups from the thematic point of view. The first group of six stories rep...
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Critical Essay by Chirantan Kulshrestha
Anand's limitations as a creative writer are so obvious that one does not have to construct elaborate rhetorical defences to justify his ideological com...
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In the following review, Dewsbury praises The Coolie as a realistic depiction of India.
Mr. Anand, in a series of novels, is presenting the panorama of the real contemporary India. The Coolie is a ...
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In the following essay, Harrex focuses on theme and structure in Anand's fiction, noting a close relationship between form and moral-social ideology.
Any discussion of the formal and technic...
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Below, Asnani comments favorably on Conversations in Bloomsbury.
Mulk Raj Anand is a multidimensional phenomenon on the contemporary Indian literary scene. Besides being a major Indian novelist, he...
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In the following essay, Anand discusses the artistic principles that informed his novels and the relationship between his life and writings.
Various studies of my novels by scholars have, in recent...
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In the following essay, Pallan discusses the quest of "being" and "becoming" as presented in The Bubble.
Mulk Raj Anand believes that it is not the consciousness of men ...
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In the following review, Fisher comments on the major themes of the stories collected in Between Tears and Laughter.
The 1991 edition of Between Tears and Laughter is a reissue of the collection of...
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O'Brien was an Irish novelist and playwright. In the following excerpt, she extols the universality of the theme of The Village.
The Village is a slow and informative narrative of peasant li...
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In the following review, Anderson asserts that "Anand sees the theatre as a potent instrument for social reform."
This attractively printed and illustrated volume [The Indian Theatre]...
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In the following excerpt, Bald identifies traits common to all of Anand's novels, including a protagonist who highlights social injustice and a hero who espouses revolution.
Mulk Raj'...
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In the review below, Kellaway comments on Anand's recollections of the Bloomsbury Group.
When T.S. Eliot, Leonard and Virginia Woolf, Arthur Waley, E.M. Forster, Clive Bell and others met Mu...
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Sharma is an Indian-born Canadian critic. In the following essay, he examines Anand's portrayal of British characters in his novels.
The British presence in the novels of Anand is persistent...
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Indian novelist and short-story writer (b. Nov. 8, 1908, Hassan, Mysore [now
Karnataka
], British India—d. July 8, 2006,
Austin, Texas
), was, with
R.K.
Narayan
and
Mulk Raj
Anand
, one ...
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Anand, Mulk Raj
Amit Chaudhuri
Critical Essay by E. M. Forster
Rao, Raja
