xo Orpheus by Kate Bernheimer

Author:Kate Bernheimer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2013-09-11T00:00:00+00:00

I first read the Mahaˉbhaˉrata as a kid, in William Buck’s abridged version, and it hit me hard. I found staggering moral depth there, not to mention superhuman adventure to beggar any comic book. The tale I’ve adapted here, of the guru-warrior Drona’s death in a great war between brothers at the epic’s climax, took perhaps two pages in my childhood edition, but it stuck in my mind like a splinter and stayed there ever since. I hope my retelling conveys a piece of what the story’s meant to me, and encourages people who don’t know the epic to seek it out.

—MG

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