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What Ten Young Men Did

What Ten Young Men Did - The Clay Sanskrit Library

1st Edition

Hardback (28 Feb 2005) | English,Sanskrit

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Publisher's Synopsis

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
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Book information

ISBN: 9780814762066
Publisher: New York University
Imprint: Clay Sanskrit Library
Pub date:
Edition: 1st Edition
DEWEY: 891.21
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English,Sanskrit
Number of pages: 651
Weight: 422g
Height: 116mm
Width: 169mm
Spine width: 31mm