![]() ![]() ![]() There are incidents and episodes that fit the traditional mold of romance, but much also transcends it. To call The Sound of the Kiss a love story is. ) - expound on that idea.Īs presented here, it certainly looks enough like a novel, but Sūranna's work is much more, too - it was presumably genre-busting fiction back then, and it still retains that feel now.Īside from the mix of poetry and prose, it is a multi-layered narrative of stories with (and about) stories it is also a work that is not just rooted in a vivid mythology but uses it to create an even richer fantasy-world: there's stuff going on here that most modern fantasy or science fiction writers would shy away from. The translators of Piṅgaḷi Sūranna's sixteenth century work, The Sound of the Kiss, "see this book as, in a certain sense, the first Indian novel", and in their extensive afterword - titled 'Invitation to a Second Reading' (because a first one may clearly not be enough. Translated and with an Introduction and Afterword by Velcheru Narayana Rao and David Shulman.General information | our review | links | about the author Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs. ![]()
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