Kourroglou by George Sand
"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.)
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| Author | Sand, George, 1804-1876 |
|---|---|
| Title | Kourroglou |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kourroglou |
| Credits |
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 gallica.bnf.fr |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 79.7 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | French |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | French fiction -- 19th century |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 13303 |
| Release Date | Aug 27, 2004 |
| Most Recently Updated | Oct 28, 2024 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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