棋王奇着

by Raja Rao, 拉贾·拉奥, 杨晓霞 (Translator)

《棋王奇着》主要围绕着主人公希瓦和三位男性、四位女性友人的关系，在希瓦和友人的交往、对话中展开，通过它们，希瓦反观自身，认识自我，从而完成对其身份两个层次的发现：首先是身处海外，在现实生活中自我文化身份的认定；其次是作为一个印度人对“人”的存在和归宿等哲学问题的探讨和解答。小说名表达了“每个人都是自己人生的‘棋王’，掌握着自身命运”之意，在人生的棋局中，自己的世事因果一步步安排着你的棋着。本书曾获诺伊施塔特国际文学奖。

933 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1988

About the author

Raja Rao (Kannada: ರಾಜ ರಾವ್) has long been recognised as "a major novelist of our age." His five earlier novels—Kanthapura (1932), The Serpent and the Rope (1960), The Cat and Shakespeare (1965), Comrade Kirillov (1976) and The Chessmaster and His Moves (1988)—and three collections of short stories—The Cow of the Barricades and Other Stories (1947), The Policeman and the Rose (1978) and On the Ganga Ghat (1989)—won wide and exceptional international acclaim.

Raja Rao was awarded the 1988 Neustadt International Prize for Literature which is given every two years to outstanding world writers. Earlier, The Serpent and the Rope won the prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award, India's highest literary honour. More recently, Raja Rao was elected a Fellow of the Sahitya Akademi.

Born in Mysore in 1909, Raja Rao went to Europe at the age of nineteen, researching in literature at the University of Montpellier and at the Sorbonne. He wrote and published his first stories in French and English. After living in France for a number of years, Raja Rao moved to the US where he taught at the University of Austin, Texas.

Notable work(s):
Kanthapura (1938)
The Serpent and the Rope (1960)

Notable award(s):
Sahitya Akademi Award (1964)
Padma Bhushan (1969)
Neustadt International Prize for Literature (1988)
Padma Vibhushan (2007)