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100			_aJames, Sinu and Jena, Bidyut Bhusan _955150
245			_aThe problem of perception in Sandor Márai’s embers: An Advaitic study
260			_aJournal of Human Values
300			_a31(2), May, 2025: p.199-207
520			_aThis article attempts to study the problem of perception in Sandor Márai’s celebrated novel Embers from the standpoint of the pramana (a method of knowledge) of Advaita Vedanta. An epistemic problem, the problem of perception, concerns the overwhelming questions of life, culminating in an enigmatic amalgamation of dilemmas and paradoxes. Genuine dilemmas and paradoxes problematize human relationships, which is evident in the complex narrative of Embers. Our contention in this article is to show how, even though enacted within the periphery of the purely fictional, Embers bears testimony to the complexities of life that are quickened by the limits of human perception, which keeps one from seeing how things really are by creating a shadow or reflected consciousness. Set against the backdrop of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the novel opens up a dialogic space at the intersection of a triangular relationship enacted on the threshold of perception and its multidimensional problems.- Reproduced https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09716858241287489
650			_aPerception, Pramana, Advaita Vedanta (non-duality), Dilemma, Paradox. _955151
773			_aJournal of Human Values
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