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- Author Girish Karnad (1938-2019) Hayavadana (meaning: Horse face) is a 1971 Indian Kannada language two- act play written by Girish Karnad. The plot is based on Br̥hatkathā and Thomas Mann 's retelling of Transposed Heads.
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Author Girish Karnad (1938-2019) Hayavadana [1] (meaning: Horse face) is a 1971 Indian Kannada language two-act play written by Girish Karnad. [2] [3] The plot is based on Br̥hatkathā and Thomas Mann's retelling of Transposed Heads. [4] Its twin play is Nagamandala (1988). [5]
Get all the key plot points of Girish Karnad's Hayavadana on one page. From the creators of SparkNotes.
“Hayavadana” is a play by Indian writer Grish Karnad. It was first published in 1971. The play was originally written in Kannada and Karnad translated it into English himself. Karnad writes ‘Hayavadana’ inspired by Thomas Mann’s – The Transposed Heads and Thomas Mann was inspired by an 11th-century Sanskrit text ‘Kathasaritsagaro’.
Though Girish Karnad’s first language is Konkani, Hayavadana and most of his other works are written in what he considers his adopted language, Kannada. Karnad also translated the play into English himself.
Girish Karnad (19 May 1938 – 10 June 2019) [1] was an Indian actor, film director, Kannada writer, [2] playwright and a Jnanpith awardee, who predominantly worked in Kannada, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Marathi films.
The play Hayavadana was published in the year 1972 and is inspired by the work of Thomas Mann titled “The Transposed Heads”. The source for this work by Thomas Mann is “Kathasaritsagara”, which is an old Sanskrit collection of stories.
Hayavadana is a play by Indian writer Girish Karnad. The play tells the story of two friends who are in love with the same woman and who accidentally swap heads. A comedy ending in tragedy, the narrative also tells the story of a man with a horse's head who seeks to become human.
