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- catalog abstract ""The Kamasutra is the most widely read treatise on sex ever written, although the man who chronicled all there was to experience between men and women remains a mystery. In The Ascetic of Desire, Sudhir Kakar tells the story of the Kamasutra's author, Vatsyayana, and his times - the fourth century A.D., considered the golden age of Indian history." "In The Ascetic of Desire, the elusive sage Vatsyayana recounts his youth to a pupil, the son of a Brahmin scholar, who is embarking on his first exploration of the sensual life. The young man, planning to write Vatsyayana's biography, listens dutifully as Vatsyayana shares stories of a childhood spent largely in the brothel where his favorite aunt worked. There Vatsyayana gained his first, indelible impressions of sexual artifice and the arousal of desire. Side by side with the unfolding of Vatsyayana's life is the story of a young man's coming of age, as the pupil finds, to his consternation, that his own life has begun to reflect and parallel the ascetic's narrative. At the point where their stories intersect, the unexpected happens."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11614081.
- catalog coverage "India History 324 B.C.-1000 A.D. Fiction.".
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""The Kamasutra is the most widely read treatise on sex ever written, although the man who chronicled all there was to experience between men and women remains a mystery. In The Ascetic of Desire, Sudhir Kakar tells the story of the Kamasutra's author, Vatsyayana, and his times - the fourth century A.D., considered the golden age of Indian history." "In The Ascetic of Desire, the elusive sage Vatsyayana recounts his youth to a pupil, the son of a Brahmin scholar, who is embarking on his first exploration of the sensual life. The young man, planning to write Vatsyayana's biography, listens dutifully as Vatsyayana shares stories of a childhood spent largely in the brothel where his favorite aunt worked. There Vatsyayana gained his first, indelible impressions of sexual artifice and the arousal of desire. Side by side with the unfolding of Vatsyayana's life is the story of a young man's coming of age, as the pupil finds, to his consternation, that his own life has begun to reflect and parallel the ascetic's narrative. At the point where their stories intersect, the unexpected happens."--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "301 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Ascetic of desire.".
- catalog identifier "1585670073".
- catalog isFormatOf "Ascetic of desire.".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Woodstock, NY : Overlook Press,".
- catalog relation "Ascetic of desire.".
- catalog spatial "India History 324 B.C.-1000 A.D. Fiction.".
- catalog spatial "India".
- catalog subject "823 21".
- catalog subject "PR9499.3.K273 A83 2000".
- catalog subject "Sex customs Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Sex customs India Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Vātsyāyana Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Young men Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Young men India Fiction.".
- catalog title "The ascetic of desire / Sushir Kakar.".
- catalog type "Biographical fiction. gsafd".
- catalog type "Erotic fiction. gsafd".
- catalog type "Erotic stories. gsafd".
- catalog type "Fiction. fast".
- catalog type "text".