The Absent Traveller: Prakrit Love Poetry From The Gathasaptasati Of Satavahana Hala - Couverture souple

Mehrotra, Arvind Krishna

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0143100807 ISBN 13 : 9780143100805

Editeur : Penguin Classics, 2008

Synopsis

Reputed to have been compiled by the Satavahana King Hala in the second century CE, this is a celebrated collection of 700 verses in Maharashtri Prakrit, composed in the compact, distilled gatha form. The anthology has attracted several learned commentaries and now, through Arvind Krishna Mehrotra's acclaimed translation of 207 verses from the anthology, readers of English at last have access to its poems. The speakers are mostly women and, whether young or old, married or single, they touch on the subject of sexuality with frankness, sensitivity and, every once in a while, humour, which never ceases to surprise.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Arvind Krishna Mehrotra was born in Lahore in 1947. He is the author of four books of poems, the most recent of which is The Transfiguring Places (1998). He has edited The Oxford India Anthology of Twelve Modern Indian Poets (1992), An Illustrated History of Indian Literature in English (2003), and The Last Bungalow: Writings on Allahabad (2007).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Classics
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0143100807
• ISBN 13: 9780143100805
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 120
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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