The Love Teachings of the Kama Sutra - Sinha, Andra
KORTE INHOUD
This beautiful book is an essential companion for today's lovers. Utterly frank in its attitude to sex and without obscurities of expression or context, Vatsyayana's work is shown to be as enriching and as delightful as it appeared to the courtiers of almost two thousands years ago. Kama Sutra is the world's classic study of the arts of love, written in about the third century AD by the mysterious sage Vatsyayana. He analyses, with the detached wisdom of old age, the possibilities of lovemaking from the first approaches to the consummation, from the sexual positions to the arrangement of furniture and the role of a go-between. His dry wit, charm and vivid language combine to give the book a relevance for beyond the perfumed world of ancient India that it describes, and create of it a humane masterpiece that contains no hint of obscenity. Kama Sutra has only been known in the English language in a nineteenth-century translation by Sir Richard Burton. The present work is an entirely new translation, made for a ...
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1980Uitgever: Spring Books290 paginasTaal: NederlandsISBN-10: 0600341585ISBN-13: 9780600341581Koop dit boek tweedehands
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London Editions [Auteur: I. Sinha] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: Spring Books] [Titel: The Love Teachings of Kama Sutra]
