The Transposed Heads: A Legend of IndiaAn ancient Indian fable of the time when men and gods talked together. |
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“But the change you perceive has a different cause and belongs to a story full of
strangeness and stress, which is precisely the story of us three who petition you.
It has set us face to face with a question we cannot solve by ourselves; we must ...
“But the change you perceive has a different cause and belongs to a story full of
strangeness and stress, which is precisely the story of us three who petition you.
It has set us face to face with a question we cannot solve by ourselves; we must ...
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The little words “at first,” a faint premonitory troubling of their unclouded sky, are
an addition by one narrating the story from outside and passing on it; whereas
they who lived in it, whose story it is, knew of no “at first,” but were only aware of ...
The little words “at first,” a faint premonitory troubling of their unclouded sky, are
an addition by one narrating the story from outside and passing on it; whereas
they who lived in it, whose story it is, knew of no “at first,” but were only aware of ...
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father or on his mother (whose name does not occur in the story because she
plays so modest a role) or on any other member of the Brahman merchant's
family or the other inhabitants of the temple village. The idea that there was
anything ...
father or on his mother (whose name does not occur in the story because she
plays so modest a role) or on any other member of the Brahman merchant's
family or the other inhabitants of the temple village. The idea that there was
anything ...
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Nutzerbericht - polutropos - LibraryThingFew pages, leaving the reader with much to think about. What is attraction? What is beauty? What is the role of love and lust in a relationship? What is, ultimately, morality? Written with a light, humorous touch, the book is unforgettable. Vollständige Rezension lesen
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Nutzerbericht - fieldnotes - LibraryThingThis folkloric, Hindu-light treatment of desire, loyalty and identity lacks the craft, gravity and heft of other Thomas Mann novels. His few prose outbursts in description of beauty or deity seem ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
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Bibliografische Informationen
| Titel | The Transposed Heads: A Legend of India |
| Autor | Thomas Mann |
| Übersetzt von | Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter |
| Mitwirkende Personen | Arthur George Rock |
| Verlag | A. A. Knopf, 1941 |
| Original von | University of Michigan |
| Digitalisiert | 22. Jan. 2007 |
| Länge | 194 Seiten |
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