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Three Satires

  • ISBN-13: 9780814788141
  • Publisher: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Nila kantha, By Kshemendra, By Bhallata, Edited and translated by Somadeva Vasudeva
  • Price: AUD $51.99
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  • Local release date: 03/03/2005
  • Format: Hardback (152.00mm X 102.00mm) 403 pages Weight: 280g
  • Categories: Literary essays [DNF]
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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 quackery bring up the rear. What's this at the very end? Virtue? A late arrival, pale and unconvincing.
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