Three Satires

TRAMA

Written over a period of nearly a thousand years, these works show three very different approaches to satire. Nilakantha gets straight to the point: swindlers prey on stupidity. The artistry that beguiles Kshemendra is as varied as human nature and just as fallible. We are off to a gentle start Sanctimonious--really no more than a warm-up among vices--but soon graduate to Greed and Lust. From there it's downhill all the way, as unfaithfulness leads on to fraud, and drunkenness to depravity; deception and qu

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780814788141
• Collana: Clay Sanskrit Library
• Dimensioni: 168 x 21 x 117 mm Ø 244 gr
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pagine Arabe: 403
• Traduttore: Vasudeva, Somadeva