Raja Rao: The Chessmaster and His Moves
1988; University of Oklahoma; Volume: 62; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/40144511
ISSN1945-8134
Autores Tópico(s)Indian History and Philosophy
Resumosubstantially from the uniquely Indian spirit and thrust of his work. The underpinning vision, steadied from its inception by that search for self-understanding, is embodied in a variety of characters, some with contrasting antecedents, who each chose their own path and ultimate goal. These pilgrimages are tested against that sense of an Absolute inspired and shaped by an immemorial inheritance stretching from the Vedas down to Rao's teacher, Sri Atmananda Guru, from whom the epigraphs to The Serpent and the Rope (1960), The Policeman and the Rose (1978), and The Chessmaster and His Moves (1988) are taken. As Sivarama Sastri, the protagonist-narrator of The Chessmaster, says:
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