The Tale of Sinuhe - Oxford World's Classics - R B Parkinson - Books - Oxford University Press - 9780199555628 - March 26, 2009
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The Tale of Sinuhe - Oxford World's Classics

R B Parkinson

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The Tale of Sinuhe - Oxford World's Classics

The Tale of Sinuhe, from c.1875 BC, has been acclaimed as the supreme masterpiece of Ancient Egyptian poetry, a perfect fusion of monumental, dramatic, and lyrical styles, and a passionate probing of its culture's ideals and anxieties. This anthology contains all the substantial surviving works from the golden age of Egyptian fictional literature. Composed by an anonymous author in the form of a funerary autobiography the Tale tells how thecourtier Sinuhe flees Egypt at the death of his king. Other works from the Middle Kingdom (c.1940-1640 BC) include a poetic dialogue between a man and his soul on the problem of suffering and death, a teaching about the nature of wisdom spoken by the ghost of the assassinated King Amenemhat I, and a series of light-heartedtales of wonder from the court of the builder of the Great Pyramid. These new translations draw on recent and innovative advances in Egyptology, and together with contextualizing introductions and notes to each work provide for the first time a literary reading of these ambiguous and fascinating poems to enable the modern reader to experience them as much as their original audience did, three thousand years ago.


336 pages

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released March 26, 2009
ISBN13 9780199555628
Publishers Oxford University Press
Pages 336
Dimensions 129 × 195 × 15 mm   ·   236 g
Translator Parkinson, R. B. (Assistant Keeper in the Department of Egyptian Antiquities, Assistant Keeper in the Department of Egyptian Antiquities, British Museum)

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