Velcheru Narayana Rao is the Krishnadevaraya Emeritus Professor of Languages and Cultures of Asia at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. David Shulman is Renee Lang Professor of Humanistic Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Eloquently outlining Peddana's groundbreaking innovations
and his acute awareness of himself as an innovator, the terrific
introduction by the translators Velcheru Narayana Rao and David
Shulman makes the point that: 'We might think of Peddana, like
Dante, as the epitome of an entire civilizational moment.' -- Neel
Mukherjee * New Statesman *
Throbs with worldliness in its vivacious medley of prose and
poetry... V. N. Rao and David Shulman's nimble
translation makes what otherwise might have been a baroque and
chaotic text a pleasure to read. It also gives readers access to
historical literature from southern India, a region whose written
traditions rarely win the same national recognition as those from
the North. -- Kanish Tharoor * Los Angeles Review of Books *
The Story of Manu, translated for the first time into any
language, gives a much wider readership access to
[Peddana's] masterful, lyrical wordsmithery. It also
affords, through its plot, a rare glimpse into the political and
religious philosophy of its times. -- Pragya Tiwari * India at LSE
blog *
Few Western poets have been so audacious and unconventional. --
Roberto Calasso * New York Review of Books *
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