The Transposed Heads (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Thomas Mann
- First Published: 1940
- Type of Work: Novella
- Type of Plot: Fable
- Time of Work: The eleventh century
- Setting: Kurukshetra, India, and environs
- Genres: Long fiction, Fable
- Subjects: Self-discovery, Philosophy or philosophers, Mythology or myths, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Death or dying, Legends, India or East Indian people, Eleventh century, Mind and body
- Locales: India, Kurukshetra, India
Characters Discussed
Shridaman, a merchant who is well versed in classical learning, twenty-one years old and of delicate build. His father, also a merchant in the village of Welfare of Cows in the land of Kosala, was of Brahman stock and very familiar with Vedic texts. Shridaman has all the attributes of a man of the mind. It is for this reason that he is attracted to his mental and physical opposite, Nanda. They are friends and inseparable. It is through Nanda that Shridaman is introduced to the pleasures of the flesh and the senses. It is also through him that he comes to...
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