Kamasutra (Oxford World's Classics)
by Mallanaga Vatsyayana
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Author: Mallanaga VatsyayanaTranslator: Wendy Doniger
Translator: Sudhir Kakar
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); French (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2003-06-26
ISBN: 0192839829
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Book Reviews of Kamasutra (Oxford World's Classics)
Book Review: Life's instruction handbook ... 17 centuries in the making
Summary: 5 Stars
I've browsed through a previous version of the Kamasutra and thought of it as a "sex" book.Now I just had the chance to read this new version which a friend of mine passed me (in my country it will be published soon). I've been quite impressed: it seems more a handbook of life than a book just about sex. After all, who thinks that something about sex is still to be said in the age of image and hedonism and ... well ... pornography?
This book will still say something to the western world, something about living and having fun and enjoying life. It teaches how to conduct a balanced life, how to find (and recognise) a good partner and, of course, how to have a satisfactory sexual life; and all this comes centuries before Freud!
Expecially women will find something that in previous translations might have been hidden. Puritanism of the victorian age influenced previous translation in such a way that the book was intended for men. Now the original spirit of some 17 century old indian text returns: women that pretend men to do what women want, women that can get rid of men as they wish, women that are able to send husband back to his mummy.
Yet, it is still a mystery if this new version will help men to understand the everlasting mysterious feminine planet.
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