The Mahabharata. A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic
by:
R.K. Narayan (author)
Format: papier
Publish date: 2001 (data przybliżona)
Publisher: Penguin
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Classics,
Literature,
Epic,
Cultural,
Religion,
Philosophy,
India,
Asian Literature,
Indian Literature,
Poetry,
Mythology,
Hinduism
If any book, other than Victor Hugo's 'Les Miserables' and Tolstoy's 'Resurrection', has captured the acute human dilemmas and paradoxes, the powerful and unresolvable human conflicts between good versus good, it is this book, 'Mahabharata'. Written such a long time ago, it is a clear proof that the...
R.K. Narayan’s abridged, prose version of India’s national epic,The Mahabharata, is concise, fast paced, well written, and – unfortunately – passionless. Narayan has excised nearly everything not directly related to the Pandavas (Yudhistira, Bhima, Arjuna, and Nakula and Sahadeva) and their wife, Dr...
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