The Kamasutra is the oldest extant textbook of erotic love. But it is more than a book about sex. It is about the art of living--about finding a partner, maintaining power in a marriage, committing adultery, living as or with a courtesan, using drugs--and also, of course, about the many and varied positions available to lovers in sexual intercourse and the pleasures to be derived from each. The Kamasutra was composed in Sanskrit, the literary language of ancient India, sometime in the third century, probably in North India. It combines an encyclopedic coverage of all imaginable aspects of sex with a closely observed sexual psychology and a dramatic, novelistic narrative of seduction, consummation, and disentanglement. Best known in English through the highly mannered, padded, and inaccurate nineteenth-century translation by Sir Richard Burton, the text is newly translated here into clear, vivid, sexually frank English. This edition also includes a section of vivid Indian color illustrations along with three uniquely important commentaries: translated excerpts from the earliest and most famous Sanskrit commentary (thirteenth century) and from a twentieth-century Hindi commentary, and explanatory notes by the two translators. The lively and entertaining introduction by translator Wendy Doniger, one of the world's foremost Sanskrit scholars, discusses the history of The Kamasutra and its reception in India and Europe, analyses its attitudes toward gender and sexual violence, and sets it in the context of ancient Indian social theory, scientific method, and sexual ethics. " This] new translation is fascinating, thought-provoking and occasionally even amusing."--Salon.com
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文/老錢 有一段時間我挺僞文藝的,所以便心思活絡地想在性情寫作方麵作一點兒嘗試。但我這人骨子裏並不具備那種不懂裝懂的範兒,所以便決定退而結網,把理論基礎打紮實後,再齣來寫點兒東西,供和我一樣的僞文藝青年或者和我不一樣的純文藝青年們樂上一樂。 《愛經》就是結網...
評分之所以沒給很差,是因為我還沒看完,也許剩下的能給我surprise 對於一本把小學生的行文方式演繹得淋灕盡緻,相同的內容倒個順序再來一遍湊字數的玩意兒,其實我不該抱有太大希望,然而,然而! 作為一本號稱愛經的玩意兒!裏麵竟然沒有涉及任何體位!一!點!也!不!專!業...
評分之所以沒給很差,是因為我還沒看完,也許剩下的能給我surprise 對於一本把小學生的行文方式演繹得淋灕盡緻,相同的內容倒個順序再來一遍湊字數的玩意兒,其實我不該抱有太大希望,然而,然而! 作為一本號稱愛經的玩意兒!裏麵竟然沒有涉及任何體位!一!點!也!不!專!業...
評分這個版本其實並不算好,較好的在颱灣有齣,因為齣版業規定的關係吧,沒有把原先所有的內容全部放進來,所以最XXX的內容是被漏掉的,作者名居然用音譯,真的還滿奇怪的。
評分婆蹉衍那說,聰明謹慎者,既追求道德與財富,也追求愛欲。在古代的印度,以及其他一些古老文明的文化和哲學體係中,性愛是文明和宗教的重要組成部分。大叔看的這個版本收錄瞭婆蹉衍那《愛經》(又譯《伽摩經》、《情愛格言》)和庫連穆爾《欲海情舟》(又譯《愛之驛》)兩部古...
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