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What Ten Young Men Did

What Ten Young Men Did

Dandin
Onians, Isabelle

Hardcover

Series: Clay Sanskrit Library, Book 43

General Fiction

ISBN10: 0814762069
ISBN13: 9780814762066
Publisher: Clay Sanskrit
Published: Feb 1 2005
Pages: 651
Weight: 1.10
Height: 1.60 Width: 4.40 Depth: 6.50
Language: English

Each of the ten princes has several adventures on his quest to be reunited with the crown-prince. Variegated violence and sorcery figure in their exploits, but love affairs are even more prominent. Commentators have lambasted Dandin's heroes for their antiheroic, apparently random, escapades, while in fact the architecture of his plot reveals an elegant, instructive construction.

What Ten Young Men Did is a coming-of-age novel from the seventh century CE. In combat and in the bedroom, ten individuals juggle virtue and vice on their heroic progress from adolescence to maturity. Dandin's work is autobiographical in two senses: each of the young men narrates their personal experiences, while the author could not have written with such confident realism had he not had many of the same picaresque adventures in his native South India and beyond.

Co-published by New York University Press and the JJC Foundation

For more on this title and other titles in the Clay Sanskrit series, please visit http: //www.claysanskritlibrary.org

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