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Against Pure Purity – Part 1

Posted on September 5, 2013 by Richard Guzman

I gave a version of this essay as a talk at a philosophy & religion conference in Kolkata, India, August 2002. Re-reading some literary criticism I had published 20 years earlier in the Virginia Quarterly, I sought to apply new ideas about Indian novelist Raja Rao … Continue reading →

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The Saint and the Sage: The Fiction of Raja Rao – Part 2

Posted on October 2, 2010 by Richard Guzman

This is Part 2 of a long essay that originally appeared in The Virginia Quarterly. (Read Part 1.) It focuses on Raja Rao, one of India’s greatest writers, arguing that his three major novels (Kanthapura, The Serpent and the Rope, … Continue reading →

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Tag Archives: The Serpent and the Rope

Against Pure Purity – Part 1

The Saint and the Sage: The Fiction of Raja Rao – Part 2