Kalidasa eBooks
eBooks di Kalidasa
La storia di Siva e Parvati: Kumarasambhava. E-book. Formato EPUB Kalidasa - Marsilio, 2018 -
Nello scenario del sublime Himalaya, scintillante di nevi e al tempo stesso antropomorfo sovrano dei monti, si svolge la vicenda di sua figlia, la stupenda Parvati, e dell’inquietante dio Siva. Vuole un decreto del Creatore Brahma che solo un figlio nato da questi sposi divini possa sconfiggere il demone Taraka che si è impadronito dell’universo e ne fa scempio. Ma Siva, affranto per la tragica morte della prima moglie, siede in meditazione profonda su un picco inaccessibile e non si accorge nemmeno della meravigliosa fanciulla già innamorata di lui. Non lo vincerà la freccia del dio dell’amore ma l’intelligente Parvati, che lo attrae dimostrando di essere capace anche di un’ascesi implacabile. Lo sposalizio trionfale nella capitale festante del regno e una notte d’amore senza fine coronano la storia di una delle coppie più amate della fede hindu e dell’immaginario mondiale, capace di incantare i lettori di ogni epoca. Composta secondo i principi raffinati della letteratura indiana classica, costruita in maniera magistrale nella scansione degli episodi e dei sentimenti, l’opera si può leggere anche come un’introduzione poetica ai grandi temi della relazione fra ascesi ed erotismo e della visione tantrica della sessualità.
Shakuntala. E-book. Formato EPUB Kalidasa - Simone Vannini, 2015 -
Kalidasa probably lived in the fifth century of the Christian era. This date, approximate as it is, must yet be given with considerable hesitation, and is by no means certain. No truly biographical data are preserved about the author, who nevertheless enjoyed a great popularity during his life, and whom the Hindus have ever regarded as the greatest of Sanskrit poets. We are thus confronted with one of the remarkable problems of literary history. For our ignorance is not due to neglect of Kalidasa's writings on the part of his countrymen, but to their strange blindness in regard to the interest and importance of historic fact. No European nation can compare with India in critical devotion to its own literature. During a period to be reckoned not by centuries but by millenniums, there has been in India an unbroken line of savants unselfishly dedicated to the perpetuation and exegesis of the native masterpieces. Editions, recensions, commentaries abound; poets have sought the exact phrase of appreciation for their predecessors: yet when we seek to reconstruct the life of their greatest poet, we have no materials except certain tantalising legends, and such data as we can gather from the writings of a man who hardly mentions himself.
Shakuntala. E-book. Formato Mobipocket Kalidasa - Simone Vannini, 2015 -
Kalidasa probably lived in the fifth century of the Christian era. This date, approximate as it is, must yet be given with considerable hesitation, and is by no means certain. No truly biographical data are preserved about the author, who nevertheless enjoyed a great popularity during his life, and whom the Hindus have ever regarded as the greatest of Sanskrit poets. We are thus confronted with one of the remarkable problems of literary history. For our ignorance is not due to neglect of Kalidasa's writings on the part of his countrymen, but to their strange blindness in regard to the interest and importance of historic fact. No European nation can compare with India in critical devotion to its own literature. During a period to be reckoned not by centuries but by millenniums, there has been in India an unbroken line of savants unselfishly dedicated to the perpetuation and exegesis of the native masterpieces. Editions, recensions, commentaries abound; poets have sought the exact phrase of appreciation for their predecessors: yet when we seek to reconstruct the life of their greatest poet, we have no materials except certain tantalising legends, and such data as we can gather from the writings of a man who hardly mentions himself.