A Flowering Tree and Other Oral Tales from India Ramanujan, A. K.; Blackburn, Stuart and Dundes, Alan
Language: English
Published by University of California Press, 1997
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- Title
- A Flowering Tree and Other Oral Tales from India Ramanujan, A. K.; Blackburn, Stuart and Dundes, Alan
- Author
- Ramanujan, A. K.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Publication year
- 1997
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0520203992
- ISBN 13
- 9780520203990
- Dimensions
- 6x0x9
With a written literature recorded from about 800 A.D., Kannada is rich in mythology, devotional and secular poetry, and more recently novels and plays. Ramanujan, born in Mysore in 1929, had an intimate knowledge of the language. In the 1950s, when working as a college lecturer, he began collecting these tales from everyone he could―servants, aunts, schoolteachers, children, carpenters, tailors. In 1970 he began translating and interpreting the tales, a project that absorbed him for the next three decades. When Ramanujan died in 1993, the translations were complete and he had written notes for about half of the tales.
With its unsentimental sympathies, its laughter, and its delightfully vivid sense of detail, the collection stands as a significant and moving monument to Ramanujan's memory as a scholar and writer.
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