Samskara: A Rite for a Dead Man

Description: 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 de ... (more)

Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
Release date: 21 June 1979
ISBN-10 : 0195610792 | ISBN-13: 9780195610796

Tags: College (1), Honors (1)

My tags:

Add tags

Update feed

Marian added this to wanted list 8 years, 4 months ago

Read
Condition
Added date
Private notes Only visible to you
or cancel