My Dateless Diary

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| name = My Dateless Diary

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| image = My Dateless Diary.jpg

| caption = First edition

| author = R. K. Narayan

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| country = India

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| genre = Autobiographical essays

| publisher = Indian Thought Publications

| release_date = 1960

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| media_type = Print

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| isbn = 978-0-14-010941-2

| dewey= 823 B 20

| congress= PR9499.3.N3 Z472 1988

| oclc= 20132905

| preceded_by = The Guide

| followed_by = The Man-Eater of Malgudi

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My Dateless Diary is a collection of autobiographical essays by R. K. Narayan published in 1960.{{cite book|last=Sundaram|first=P. S. |title=R.K. Narayan|publisher=Arnold-Heinemann India|year=1973|series=Indian writers series|volume=6|pages=23|oclc=1086989 }} The book was the output of a daily journal that he maintained during his visit to the United States on a Rockefeller Fellowship in 1956.{{cite book|last=Sundaram|first=P. S. |title=R.K. Narayan as a novelist|publisher=B.R. Pub. Corp|year=1988|series=New world literature series|volume=14|pages=132|isbn=978-81-7018-531-4 }} While on this visit, Narayan also completed The Guide, the writing of which is covered in this book.{{cite book|last=Iyengar|first=K. R. Srinivasa|title=Indian writing in English|publisher=Asia Pub. House|year=1973|pages=359|isbn=978-0-210-33964-0}} The book is focused on Narayan's interactions with the American people and the people themselves.{{cite book|last=Rao|first=Ranga|title=R. K. Narayan|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|year=2006|pages=48|isbn=978-81-260-1971-7|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Lgs4ebrb6XAC&pg=PP1|accessdate=27 August 2009}} The book also highlights Narayan's view of the west, his appreciation and admiration in general, but subtle disapproval of specific aspects while making it known that there isn't much of a gap between his values and those he has come across.{{cite book|last=Kanaganayakam|first=Chelvanayakam |title=Counterrealism and Indo-Anglian fiction|url=https://archive.org/details/counterrealismin0000kana|url-access=registration|publisher=Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press|year=2002|series=Wilfrid Laurier Series|pages=[https://archive.org/details/counterrealismin0000kana/page/48 48], 192|isbn=978-0-88920-398-3|oclc=180704543|author-link=Chelvanayakam Kanaganayakam}} The book offers insights into both, the author and his subjects.{{cite news|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/66580349.html?dids=66580349:66580349&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Oct+22%2C+1989&author=CHARLES+SOLOMON&pub=Los+Angeles+Times+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=MY+DATELESS+DIARY%3A+An+American+Journey+by+R.+K.+Narayan+(Penguin%3A+%246.95)&pqatl=google|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121022084546/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/66580349.html?dids=66580349:66580349&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Oct+22,+1989&author=CHARLES+SOLOMON&pub=Los+Angeles+Times+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=MY+DATELESS+DIARY:+An+American+Journey+by+R.+K.+Narayan+(Penguin:+$6.95)&pqatl=google|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 October 2012|title=MY DATELESS DIARY: An American Journey by R. K. Narayan|last=Solomon|first=Charles|date=22 October 1989|newspaper=LA Times|accessdate=28 August 2009}}