What ten young men did.
Translated by Isabelle Onians.
Dandin. - ID: 2860
Each of the ten princes has several adventures on his quest to be reunited with the crown-prince. Variegated violence and sorcery figure in their exploits, but love affairs are even more prominent. Commentators have lambasted Dandin's heroes for their antiheroic, apparently random, escapades, while in fact the architecture of his plot reveals an elegant, instructive construction. What Ten Young Men Did is a coming-of-age novel from the seventh century CE. In combat and in the bedroom, ten individuals juggle virtue and vice on their heroic progress from adolescence to maturity. Dandin?s work is autobiographical in two senses: each of the young men narrates their personal experiences, while the author could not have written with such confident realism had he not had many of the same picaresque adventures in his native South India and beyond.
Bound, cloth with original dustjacket, 651pp., 11.5x17cm., in very good condition (dustjacket with slight traces of use). Bilingual edition (Sanskrit-English). ISBN: 9780814762066. "Clay Sanskrit Library".
5x17cm
651 pp.
New York University Press JJC Foundation 2005 New York
