TIBETAN JAM’YANG NORBU AS THE AUTHOR ON THE PAGES OF HIS NOVEL “THE MANDALA OF SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE ADVENTURES OF THE GREAT DETECTIVE IN INDIA AND TIBET”
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Jamyang Norbu – Tibetan contemporary writer, journalist and human rights activist – and his famous novel became world-famous after 2000, when the “Mandala of Sherlock Holmes...”, received the highest Indian literary award “Crossword Book Award”. The article discusses different options for how the author may be present in his work. Jamyang Norbu granted his literary character with his own biography of being a novelist. Moreover, he was presented as the creator of the text: extra-textual elements of the novel belong to him. Norbu uses the image of travelling as an element of detective composition, and as a path of perfection. He also uses the correlation of the Canon and the related Commentary, as the structure of the novel method. But the refinement of the English text, created by Tibetan writer, caused certain doubts about his authorship. Thus Peter Hopkirk – an Englishman, a big admirer of Rudyard Kipling novels as Norbu, and a great expert of the Great Games – has expressed his hesitations regarding Tibetan writer’s authorship.
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India, Jamyang Norbu, Mandala of Sherlock Holmes, the Great Game, Tibet
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