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Written over a period of nearly a thousand years, these works show three very different approaches to satire. Nilakantha gets straight to the point: swindlers prey on stupidity. The artistry that beguiles Kshemendra is as varied as human-nature and just as fallible. We are off to a gentle start Sanctimonious - really no more than a warm-up among vices - but soon graduate to Greed and Lust. From there it's downhill all the way, as unfaithfulness leads on to fraud, and drunkenness to depravity; deception and quackery bring up the rear. What's this at the very end? Virtue? A late arrival, pale and unconvincing.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Prose: non-fiction Literary essays

• Full title: Three Satires
• Author: Somadeva Vasudeva
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 403
• EAN: 9780814788141
• ISBN: 0814788149
• ID: 01286546
• Publisher: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
• Weight: 272 g
• Dimensions: 152 × 102 × 24 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. February 2005

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