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Vâdivâçal

Des taureaux et des hommes en pays tamoul

Translated by François Gros

A pioneer of contemporary Tamil literature, C. S. Chellappa gives us a founding text of modern Tamil fiction with his masterpiece, Vâdivâçal. The language is colourful, dense, precise, new, full of dialectal flavours, vibrant with the intimate life of the villagers. The subject is even more novel: described in detail, the jallikkattu, a centuries-old bullfighting game that is disappearing, is the setting for a dramatic conflict between an exceptional bull and the life and honour of two gen...


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Editor's note

Vâdivâçal, Kûtuçâlai © C. Subramanian. 

  • Publisher : Institut Français de Pondichéry
  • Series : Mondes Indiens/South Asia
  • Place of publication : Pondichéry
  • Year of publication : 2014
  • Published on OpenEdition Books : 14 avril 2020
  • EAN (Print version) : 978-81-8470-202-6
  • Electronic EAN : 979-10-365-4990-8
  • DOI : 10.4000/books.ifp.3315
  • Number of pages : 121 p.
François Gros
Introduction

Traduction

Cinnamanur Subramaniam Chellappa
Préface
Vâdivâçal

Histoire de jallikkattu à propos d'un taureau et d’un tombeur de taureau

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