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100 1 $aCalasso, Roberto.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82244147
240 10 $aKa.$lEnglish
245 10 $aKa /$cRoberto Calasso ; translated by Tim Parks.
250 $a1st American ed.
260 $aNew York, NY :$bKnopf,$c1998.
300 $a443 pages ;$c24 cm
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500 $aTranslation of: Ka. Milano : Adelphi, 1996.
520 $aRoberto Calasso narrates the birth of one of the world's great cultures: the formation of the mind of India. He doesn't explain or describe this mental world - he regenerates it through its epic cyclical stories and customs, until we no longer need to define it for ourselves because we have come to know what it is.
520 8 $aSo: Who is Ka? And who is the immense eagle asking the question, filling the sky, elephant and giant turtle dwarfed in his claws? How can he be the child of a woman? Who are the tiny folk he eats? The first impact of Ka is one of tremendous strangeness, bewilderment, disorientation. How can a Western tradition which demands to identify a beginning and an end understand one that sees no beginning and no end, but only an eternal tangle?
520 8 $aSlowly, though, the strange becomes familiar, as new and ever more fantastic stories are spun out, gods emerge, bizarre sacrifices are performed. Rejecting our cravings to have the culture systematized and predigested for us, Calasso invites us to understand India on Indian terms, through Indian images, through India itself.
520 8 $aAs Ka unfolds, the worlds of the Devas, of Siva, Brahma and Visnu, of the wars of the Mahabharata, are splendidly revealed, until finally, with the advent of the Buddha, we are amazed at our own sense of recognition, for these stories seem to confirm, or to articulate for the first time, our own deepest perceptions about our human condition.
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