Irawati Karmarkar Karve (1905–1970)
Autor de Yuganta
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Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1905
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1970-08-11
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- India
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- Obras
- 8
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- 1
- Miembros
- 137
- Popularidad
- #149,084
- Valoración
- 4.2
- Reseñas
- 6
- ISBNs
- 5
It mostly succeeds. The narrative is conveniently split into character studies and so jumps back and forth multiple times, giving us views of the same events from many angles. The core idea it argues for is that Mahabharat is a study of human weaknesses and a deep reflection of what it means to exist in the world. There are no Gods and monsters here, just deeply flawed men and women burning with jealousy or closely guarding their stations in life. People do good and evil things to follow a "code", and then also ditch that same code if it suits them.
Some of the stories are conjectures and don't really add a whole lot (Gandhari and Draupadi's stories near the end of their lives are weirdly placed). Others - esp. the ones about Bhishma, Karna and Krishna are logical and do not invent new legends but manage to show the events that are already well known in a whole new light.
I would highly recommend this to anyone who is even superficially interested in mythology.… (más)