The Mahabharata: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic [Audiobook] download free by R K Narayan
- Listen audiobook: The Mahabharata: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic
- Author: R K Narayan
- Release date: 2014/2/26
- Publisher: THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9780226051659
- Rating: 8.56 of 10
- Votes: 141
- Review by: Quinton Collier
- Review rating: 8.86 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/12
- Duration: 2H18M56S in 256 kbps (36.4 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-28
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: FLAC, MPEG4, AC3, WMA, WavPack, WAV, MPEG-4 DST, MP3 (compression TAR.Z, AZW3, ARJ, ZIP, RAR)
- Total pages original book: 182
- Includes a PDF summary of 19 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 14M2S (3.8 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: The Mahabharata tells a story of such violence and tragedy that many people in India refuse to keep the full text in their homes, fearing that if they do, they will invite a disastrous fate upon their house. Covering everything from creation to destruction, this ancient poem remains an indelible part of Hindu culture and a landmark in ancient literature. Centuries of listeners and readers have been drawn to The Mahabharata, which began as disparate oral ballads and grew into a sprawling epic. The modern version is famously long, and at more than 1.8 million words-seven times the combined lengths of the Iliad and Odyssey-it can be incredibly daunting. Contemporary readers have a much more accessible entry point to this important work, thanks to R. K. Narayan's masterful translation and abridgement of the poem. Now with a new foreword by Wendy Doniger, as well as a concise character and place guide and a family tree, The Mahabharata is ready for a new generation of readers. As Wendy Doniger explains in the foreword, 'Narayan tells the stories so well because they're all his stories.' He grew up hearing them, internalizing their mythology, which gave him an innate ability to choose the right passages and their best translations. In this elegant translation, Narayan ably distills a tale that is both traditional and constantly changing. He draws from both scholarly analysis and creative interpretation and vividly fuses the spiritual with the secular. Through this balance he has produced a translation that is not only clear, but graceful, one that stands as its own story as much as an adaptation of a larger work.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Hindu Sacred Texts, Poetry By Individual Poets, Classic Books & Novels
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 17.45 USD
- Dimensions: 142x215x12mm
- Weight: 254g
- Printed by: University of Chicago Press
- Published in: United States
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