Du couple divin au couple humain Les allers et retours du poète bengali Bharat Chandra Ray dans Annadamangal (1752)

Every love story from Hindu ­India’s premodern era recounts the passion of the God Krishna and the young shepherdess Radha. The eighteenth-century Bengali poet Bharat Chandra Ray ­confers the prestige of the divine on the human while bestowing the charm of the human on the divine. In the future, translation must make manifest the myth and the realism of an earthly embrace.