The Serpent and the Rope (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Raja Rao
- First Published: 1960
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Philosophical
- Time of Work: The late 1940’s and the early 1950’s
- Setting: Aix-en-Provence, Paris, India, and London
- Genres: Long fiction, Philosophical realism
- Subjects: 1950’s, Culture, Self-discovery, Perception, France or French people, Love or romance, Race, Marriage, 1940’s, Paris, Truth, India or East Indian people, London, Mysticism, Hindus or Hinduism, Transcendentalism
- Locales: Paris, France, London, England, India, Aix-en-Provence, France
Characters Discussed
K. R. Ramaswamy, or Rama, the narrator and protagonist. He is a South Indian Brahmin, a research scholar and historian who is living in France while writing his doctoral dissertation on the Albigensian heresy. Twenty-six years old, this handsome, consumptive, gentle, sensitive, and self-conscious intellectual leisurely recounts the story of his family background, his stay in Europe from 1946 to 1954, his marriage with a Frenchwoman at the age of twenty-one, his two trips to India, his discovery of a soul mate in a young Hindu woman studying at Cambridge,...
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