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 the courtier Sinuhe flees Egypt at
the death of his king. Other works from the Middle
Kingdom (c.1[zasłonięte]940-16 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-hearted tales 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,
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