Sunjata: A New Prose Version
- ISBN-10
- 1624664962
- ISBN-13
- 9781624664960
- Series
- Sunjata
- Category
- Literary Collections
- Pages
- 192
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016-06-01
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing
Description
"After existing orally for hundreds of years, Sunjata was written down in the 20th century. David Conrad, who recorded a new version of the epic, has now crafted a prose translation that preserves the oral flavor of live performance. The result is a captivating work of literature that will finally give the story of Sunjata its well-deserved place among the great epics of world literature." —Martin Puchner, Byron and Anita Wien Professor of Drama and of English and Comparative Literature, Harvard University
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