The Transposed Heads: A Legend of IndiaKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 12.09.1959 - 128 Seiten From a Nobel Prize for Literature winner and one of the most iconic German writers of the 20th century, Transposed Heads is a beautiful story that explores the complex relationship between the spirit, body, and mind. Inspired by an ancient Hindu legend, Mann’s writes about two Indian friends, Shridaman and Nanda, whom together, decide to decapitate themselves. However, they awaken from their attempted suicides to find their heads restored, but to the wrong body. Now, Sita, the wife of Shridaman must determine the true meaning of identity as she navigates her own feelings as to which representation is her actual husband. As the love-triangle carries on, Mann shows just how entwined our mind, body, and spirit are. “The Transposed Heads is altogether delightful . . . It is certainly the most charming of Mann's works . . . in short, a restatement in parable form of Mann's intransigent faith in the human intellect. It is also a rich and subtle analysis of the psychology of friendship and love.”—Sewanee Review |
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... Blood steamed hot in the skull she held with one hand to her lips , and blood was at her feet in a spreading pool . The frightful one stood in a bark on the flooding sea of life , it swam in a sea of blood . The very smell of blood ...
... Blood steamed hot in the skull she held with one hand to her lips , and blood was at her feet in a spreading pool . The frightful one stood in a bark on the flooding sea of life , it swam in a sea of blood . The very smell of blood ...
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... blood . " Ye gods , saints , and holy hermits ! " she whis- pered blue - lipped , " I am lost ! Both men , both at once . All is over ! My lord and husband , who went about the fire with me , my Shridaman with the es- timable head and ...
... blood . " Ye gods , saints , and holy hermits ! " she whis- pered blue - lipped , " I am lost ! Both men , both at once . All is over ! My lord and husband , who went about the fire with me , my Shridaman with the es- timable head and ...
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... blood . He turned out later to be very nearsighted . Thus do prophecies and folklore get themselves fulfilled , somewhat darkly and imperfectly . You may say they have " come true , " or that they have not , as you like . After a while ...
... blood . He turned out later to be very nearsighted . Thus do prophecies and folklore get themselves fulfilled , somewhat darkly and imperfectly . You may say they have " come true , " or that they have not , as you like . After a while ...
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Andhaka Arden Edition bath beauty Bhavabhuti blind bliss body Brahman breast called cried daman Dankaka Death in Venice deed desire dream embraced eyes face father FAULKNER feast feel fire flesh flowers forgive friend-body Gandharva Garga goat-nose goddess Goldfly hand happiness head and limbs heart hermit holy honour husband-body husband's head hushed Indra kadamba tree Kamadamana laugh LEGEND OF INDIA lips listen live look lovely Sita lucky-calf lock lust marriage Maya Mother mustard oil my-feeling Nanda Nanda-body ness Nirvana once pale polyandry round sacrifice Samadhi Samsara sandalwood sense Shri Shrida Shridaman sight Sita's Siyat soft soul speak spirit stood Stories stout arms sweet sword swung tell thing THOMAS MANN thou thought tion took Transposed Heads tree turned unpeopled void Vedas voice warrior blood wedded Welfare of Cows WILLIAM womb words yearned youth
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