3 résultats pour "arundhati"
-
Indian Literature
I
INTRODUCTION
Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things
Indian author Arundhati Roy poses with a copy of her acclaimed first novel, The God of Small Things (1997).
Mathura BuddhaMany of the earliest texts of Indian literature were religious writings of Buddhism. This Buddha figure carved out ofsandstone is from Mathura, a city in northern India that was at the center of Buddhist sculptural activity from the 2ndcentury bc to the 6th century ad.Angelo Hornak/Corbis The sacred Vedas were composed in Old Sanskrit by Aryan poet-seers between about 1500 BC and about 1000 BC. The Vedas are compilations of two major literary forms: hymns of praise to nature deit...
-
Dissertation, Incipit du "dieu des petits riens" de Arundhati Roy, en anglais
fleshed out later and that give a sense of oddity : someone named Orangedrink Lemondrink Man did something to Estha, Ammu died. Ammu is mom in an indian dialect (Malayalam), and we don't know who the OLMan is, the reader is left in a blurry imagination. It is also question of life and death, in the course of the five first lines, bananas ripen, jackfruits burst blueblottles die in the sun. Then we have the birth of plants, they all ?snake up? burst or spill across the flooded roads?, as well...
-
Arundhati Roy, incipit of The God of small things
fleshed out later and that give a sense of oddity : someone named Orangedrink Lemondrink Man did something to Estha, Ammu died. Ammu is mom in an indian dialect (Malayalam), and we don't know who the OLMan is, the reader is left in a blurry imagination. It is also question of life and death, in the course of the five first lines, bananas ripen, jackfruits burst blueblottles die in the sun. Then we have the birth of plants, they all ?snake up? burst or spill across the flooded roads?, as well...