The Serpent and the Rope

The Serpent and the Rope
First edition
Author	Raja Rao
Country	India
Publisher	John Murray
Publication date	1960
Media type	Print
ISBN	9780143422334
OCLC	609467549
Dewey Decimal	823.91
LC Class	PZ3.R1369 Se

The Serpent and the Rope is a novel by Raja Rao first published in 1960 by John Murray. Written in an autobiographical style, the novel deals with the concepts of existence, reality, and fulfillment of one's capabilities.^[1] The protagonist Ramaswamy's thought process in the novel is said to be influenced by vedantic philosophy and Adi Shankara's non-dualism.^[2]

The novel won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1964.^[3]

References

↑ Gupta 2002, p. 24–25.
↑ Dayal 1986, p. 21–28.
↑ Powers 2003, p. 212–213.

Bibliography

Gupta, Ramesh Kumar (1 January 2002). "Ontological Entity in The Serpent and The Rope". In K. V. Surendran. Indian Literature in English: New Perspectives. Sarup & Sons. pp. 24–31. ISBN 9788176252492. OCLC 52263671.
Piciucco, Pier Paolo (2001). "In Between The Serpent and the Rope". In Rajeshwar Mittapalli, Pier Paolo Piciucco. The Fiction of Raja Rao: Critical Studies. Atlantic Publishers & Distributors. pp. 179–185. ISBN 9788126900183. OCLC 50117094.
Dayal, P (1986). Raja Rao. Atlantic Publishers & Distributors. OCLC 24909983.
Sharma, Kaushal (2005). Raja Rao: A Study of his Themes and Technique. Sarup & Sons. ISBN 9788176256179. OCLC 297507382.
Rao, A. Sudhakar (1999). Socio-cultural Aspects of Life in the Selected Novels of Raja Rao. Atlantic Publishers & Distributors. ISBN 9788171568291.
Powers, Janet M. (2003). "Raja Rao (1910– )". In Jaina C. Sanga. South Asian Novelists in English: An A-to-Z Guide. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 9780313318856. OCLC 608576912.

Sahitya Akademi Award for English

1960–1975	The Guide by R. K. Narayan (1960) The Serpent and the Rope by Raja Rao (1964) The Tribal World of Verrier Elwin by Verrier Elwin (1965) Shadow From Ladakh by Bhabani Bhattacharya (1967) An Artist in Life by Niharranjan Ray (1969) Morning Face by Mulk Raj Anand (1971) Scholar Extraordinary by Nirad C. Chaudhuri (1975)

1976–2000	Jawaharlal Nehru by Sarvepalli Gopal (1976) Azadi by Chaman Nahal (1977) Fire on the Mountain by Anita Desai (1978) Inside the Haveli by Rama Mehta (1979) On the Mother by K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar (1980) Relationship by Jayanta Mahapatra (1981) The Last Labyrinth by Arun Joshi (1982) Latter-Day Psalms by Nissim Ezekiel (1983) The Keeper of the Dead by Keki N. Daruwalla (1984) Collected Poems by Kamala Das (1985) Rich Like Us by Nayantara Sahgal (1986) Trapfalls In the Sky by Shiv K. Kumar (1987) The Golden Gate by Vikram Seth (1988) The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh (1989) That Long Silence by Shashi Deshpande (1990) The Trotter-Nama by Allan Sealy (1991) Our Trees Still Grow In Dehra by Ruskin Bond (1992) After Amnesia by G. N. Devy (1993) Serendip by Dom Moraes (1994) Memories of Rain by Sunetra Gupta (1996) Final Solutions and Other Plays by Mahesh Dattani (1998) The Collected Poems by A. K. Ramanujan (1999) Cuckold by Kiran Nagarkar (2000)

2001–2015	Rajaji: A Life by Rajmohan Gandhi (2001) A New World by Amit Chaudhuri (2002) The Perishable Empire by Meenakshi Mukherjee (2003) The Mammaries of the Welfare State by Upamanyu Chatterjee (2004) The Algebra of Infinite Justice by Arundhati Roy (2005) The Sari Shop by Rupa Bajwa (2006) Disorderly Women by Malathi Rao (2007) Mahabharata: An Inquiry into the Human Condition by Chaturvedi Badrinath (2009) The Book of Rachel by Esther David (2010) India after Gandhi by Ramachandra Guha (2011) These Errors are Correct by Jeet Thayil (2012) Laburnum For My Head by Temsula Ao (2013) Trying to Say Goodbye by Adil Jussawalla (2014) Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer by Cyrus Mistry (2015)

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