The thief of Nagarahalli and other stories / Basavaraj Naikar.

"Indian poetics considers pleasure as the essence, the soul of literature. Pleasure principle is an all-pervading concept, which may be applied to all genres of literature from all nations and all languages. Pleasure afforded by literature depends on and derives from the world-view of the people that it represents. The sensibility that it evokes differs according to the difference in the world-view. But the pleasure principle works towards the unification of various world-views inasmuch as all the different world-views aspire towards pleasure. One recent book that is based on and exemplifies the pleasure principle amply is The Thief of Nagarahalli and Other Stories, the debut collection of Prof. Basavaraj Naikar of Karnataka University, Dharwad. The writer has special interest in English literature in translation, Karnataka folk theatre and Kannada religious literature and all these interests have helped in shaping his art as a story writer."--