Samskara : A Rite for a Dead Man (Oxford India Paperbacks)
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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.
Samskara: A Rite for a Dead Man (Oxford India Paperbacks),U.R. Anantha Murthy,A.K. Ramanujan,Oxford University Press, USA,0195610792,Asian - Indic,Classics,East Asian Literature,Fiction,Fiction - General,Language,Language Arts & Disciplines,Linguistics,English literature,Fiction / Classics,Kannada literature,Literary studies: general,Literature/English | World Literature | India,Translations from Kannada,Translations into English
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