PARVA - A TALE OF WAR, PEACE, LOVE, DEATH, GOD AND MAN (A MODERN KANNADA CLASSIC NOVEL) 2024 KE&

Author: S.L. Bhyrappa, Sahitya Akademi

Brand: Generic

Binding: hardcover

Languages: English

Number Of Pages: 950

Release Date: 01-01-2024

Details: Parva is acknowledged to be S.L.Bhyrappa's greatest work. Non Kannadigas who have read it in its Hindi and Marathi translations consider it one of the masterpieces of modern Indian literature. It is a transformation of an ancient legend into a modern novel. In this process, it has gained national credibility and a human perspective. The main incident, the Bharata war, symbolic of the birth pangs of a new world-order, depicts a heroic but vain effort to arrest the disintegration and continue the prevailing order. It is viewed from the stand points of the partisan participants and judged with reference to the objective understanding of Krishna. Narration, dialogue, monologue and comment all are employed for its presentation. Shot through with irony, pity and understanding objectivity, the novel ends with the true tragic vision of faith in life and hope for mankind.
S.L. Bhyrappa is one of the foremost Indian novelists writing in Kannada. Born in 1931 in Santeshivara, a village in Hassan district in Karnataka, he took Ph.D degree in Aesthetics from M.S. University and then taught Philosophy at Regional College of Education, Mysore for twenty years.
Author of more than twenty five novels, four volumes of literary criticism and an autobiography, Dr. Bhyrappa is a major voice. Vansha Vriksha, Daatu, Saakshi, Parva, Sartha Thantu, Mandra which won the most prestigious award Saraswathi Samman and Avarana which has gone into 55 reprints. Bhyrappa represented India on several literary assignments to various parts of the world. Recipient of Karnataka Sahitya Akademi Award (twice), Sahitya Akademi Award(1975). He is Fellow of Sahitya Akademi, National professor, recipient of honorary doctorate from seven universities.
Most of his books are best sellers in their translations in almost all Indian languages including English and Sanskrit.
K. Raghavendra Rao (1928-2020), the translator of this novel was a Professor of Political Science. Has published a number a of books in English and Kannada. Spring Fire (Bendre's poems in English), Modern Indo-Anglian Poems (edited with P.Lal), Modern Kannada Poetry (edited with C.S. Kanavi), The Peacock Smile, a critical study of Bendre, deserve special mention.