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Carole Satyamurti (1939–2019)

Autor(a) de Mahabharata: A Modern Retelling

11+ Works 119 Membros 2 Críticas

About the Author

Carole Satyamurti teaches at the Tavistock Clinic.
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Obras por Carole Satyamurti

Mahabharata: A Modern Retelling (2015) 89 exemplares
Love and Variations (2000) 6 exemplares
Selected Poems (Oxford Poets) (1998) 5 exemplares
Countdown (2011) 4 exemplares
Striking Distance (1994) 3 exemplares
Broken Moon (Oxford Poets) (1987) 3 exemplares
The Hopeful Hat (2023) 3 exemplares
Changing the subject (1990) 1 exemplar

Associated Works

Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contribuidor, algumas edições915 exemplares
The Poetry Cure (2005) — Contribuidor — 19 exemplares
Modern Women Poets (2005) — Contribuidor — 13 exemplares

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Data de nascimento
1939
Data de falecimento
2019-08
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
UK
Local de nascimento
Kent, England, UK
Locais de residência
London, England, UK
Ocupações
poet
sociologist
translator
teacher
Organizações
Arvon Foundation
Poetry Society (UK)
University of East London
Prémios e menções honrosas
National Poetry Competition (1986)
Arts Council Writers' Award (1988)
Cholmondeley Award (2000)

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poet, translator and sociologist. For many years she taught at the Tavistock Clinic, where her main academic interest was in the relevance of psychoanalytic ideas to an understanding of the stories people tell about themselves, whether in formal autobiography or in social encounters. She co-edited Acquainted with the Night: psychoanalysis and the poetic imagination (2003). She won the National Poetry Competition in 1986, and a Cholmondeley Award in 2000. Countdown (2011) was her first new collection after Stitching the Dark: New & Selected Poems (2005), which drew on five collections: Broken Moon (1987), Changing the Subject (1990), Striking Distance (1994), Love and Variations (2000), and Stitching the Dark (2005), two of these Poetry Book Society Recommendations. Her translation, Mahabharata: A Modern Retelling (W.W. Norton, 2015), was joint winner of the inaugural Roehampton Poetry Prize.

Membros

Críticas

 
Assinalado
ErichF | 1 outra crítica | Aug 24, 2022 |
Of the English versions of this epic that I've read, this is by far my favorite.

Carole Satyamurti is a poet, not a Sanskrit scholar. Her retelling uses blank verse and modern language to wonderful effect. I couldn't put it down. The wars of succession between the Pandavas and the Kauravas is enough of a tale to grasp without all the subplots, instructive stories, and dharma lectures that make up the Mahabharata. Satyamurti whittles the 100,000 lines of the whole thing into 841 fast-moving pages that include the best of the epic's many digressions.

Satyamurti's rendering captures the spiritual dimension of events and characters (it is not only a great adventure but a religious text) without the pious language that sometimes makes other versions seem two dimensional.

I raced through this version, turned the last page, and started over again.

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seschanfield | 1 outra crítica | Mar 7, 2016 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
11
Also by
3
Membros
119
Popularidade
#166,388
Avaliação
4.2
Críticas
2
ISBN
15

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