The Tale of Kieu
of Nguyễn Du, Huỳnh Sanh Thông (Translator), Alexander Barton Woodside (Contributor)
Description
Since its publication in the early nineteenth century, this long narrative poem has stood unchallenged as the supreme masterpiece of Vietnamese literature. Thông’s new and absorbingly readable translation (on pages facing the Vietnamese text) is illuminated by notes that give comparative passages from the Chinese novel on which the poem was based, details on Chinese allusions, and literal translations with background information explaining Vietnamese proverbs and folk sayings.
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- Format Paperback
- Pages 216 pages
- Publisher Yale University Press
- Publication Date September 10th 1987
- First Publication 11/06/20
- Language English
- ISBN 9780300040517
- Edition Not informed
- Category Poetry & Essays
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