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Samskara: A Rite for a Dead Man

Samskara: A Rite for a Dead Man

Ramnujan, A. K.
Murthy, U. R. Anantha
Ananthamurthy, U. R.

Paperback

Series: Oxford India Collection (Paperback)

Literary CriticismClassic Fiction

ISBN10: 0195610792
ISBN13: 9780195610796
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Made into a powerful, award-winning film in 1970, this important Kannada novel of the sixties has received widespread acclaim from both critics and general readers since its first publication in 1965. As a religious novel about a decaying brahmin colony in the south Indian village of Karnataka, Samskara serves as an allegory rich in realistic detail, a contemporary reworking of ancient Hindu themes and myths, and a serious, poetic study of a religious man living in a community of priests gone to seed. A death which stands as the central event in the plot brings in its wake a plague, many more deaths, live questions with only dead answers, moral chaos, and the rebirth of one man. The volume provides a useful glossary of Hindu myths, customs, Indian names, flora, and other terms. Notes and an afterword enhance the self-contained, faithful, and yet readable translation.

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