The Serpent and the Rope
novel by Rao
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The Serpent and the Rope is a 1960 novel by Raja Rao, considered by many critics to be his masterpiece. This autobiographical work follows a young Brahman intellectual and his wife as they search for spiritual truth across India, France, and England. The novel delves into the disintegration of the narrator's first marriage and broadly investigates the intersections of Eastern and Western cultural traditions. Rao's writing style in this novel blends various literary forms and texts from these diverse traditions.1
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