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Vetaal and Vikram : riddles of the undead

Title: Vetaal and Vikram : riddles of the undead / Gayathri Prabu.
Author: Prabhu, Gayathri
Publication: Uttar Pradesh : HarperCollins India, 2019.

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197 pages; 21 cm

Summary

Vetaal and Vikram is a playful retelling of one of India's most celebrated cycles of stories. The narrative of King Vikram and the Vetaal is located within the Kathasaritsagara, an eleventh-century Sanskrit text. The Vetaal who is neither living nor dead is a consummate storyteller, and Vikram is a listener who can neither speak nor stay silent. Together they are destined to walk a labyrinth of stories in the course of a moonless night in a cremation ground. In 1870, eleven of the Vetaal's stories were adapted to English by the famed scholar-explorer Richard Francis Burton who tailored them to his audience's gothic taste. Vetaal and Vikram is a contemporary response that includes Burton within its storytelling folds. Fantastical and delightful, this retelling dissolves the lines between speaker and listener, desire and duty, life and death.

Subject

Genre/Form

Fiction.
Folklore.
Gothic fiction.

ISBN

9353573394
9789353573393

LCCN

99992290084

OCLC

on1125020385
1125020385
SCSB-14450502

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Columbia University Libraries