Kourroglou
Sand, George, 1804-1876
Kourroglou - 1 online resource : multiple file formats
Wikipedia page about this book: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kourroglou Release date is 2004-08-27
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"Kourroglou" by George Sand is a work published in 1843. It is Sand's French adaptation of a Central Asian epic about Kourroglou, a legendary Turkmen warrior-poet of the sixteenth century. Based on Alexander Chodzko's English translation of oral Turkish fragments, Sand presents this tale of a bandit hero celebrated for his battles, raids, and poetic improvisations. The complex journey from oral tradition through multiple languages ultimately produced a work that challenged French readers with its unfamiliar epic style and exotic setting in seventeenth-century Turkmenistan. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
French fiction -- 19th century
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Kourroglou - 1 online resource : multiple file formats
Wikipedia page about this book: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kourroglou Release date is 2004-08-27
Produced by Renald Levesque and the Online Distributed Proofreading
Team. This file was produced from images generously made available
by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at
http://gallica.bnf.fr Produced by Renald Levesque and the Online Distributed Proofreading
Team. This file was produced from images generously made available
by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at
http://gallica.bnf.fr
"Kourroglou" by George Sand is a work published in 1843. It is Sand's French adaptation of a Central Asian epic about Kourroglou, a legendary Turkmen warrior-poet of the sixteenth century. Based on Alexander Chodzko's English translation of oral Turkish fragments, Sand presents this tale of a bandit hero celebrated for his battles, raids, and poetic improvisations. The complex journey from oral tradition through multiple languages ultimately produced a work that challenged French readers with its unfamiliar epic style and exotic setting in seventeenth-century Turkmenistan. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
French fiction -- 19th century
PQ