La Guzla
Maglanovic, an alleged narrator of La Guzla; book frontispiece
La Guzla, ou Choix de poesies illyriques, recueillies dans la Dalmatie, la Bosnie, La Croatie et l'Hertzegowine (The Guzla, or a Selection of Illyric Poems Collected in Dalmatia, Bosnia, Croatia and Herzegovina) was an 1827 literary hoax of Prosper Mérimée.[1]
It was presented as a collection of translations of folk ballads narrated by a guzlar (gusle player) Hyacinthe Maglanović, complete with invented commentaries. Of 29 ballads, one of them, Triste ballade de la noble épouse d'Assan-Aga, was an authentic one.
The Russian poet Alexander Pushkin translated 11 ballads from La Guzla into his cycle .[2]
References[]
- ^ "Literary Encyclopedia | La Guzla, ou Choix de poésies illyriques, recueillies dans la Dalmatie, la Bosnie, La Croatie et l'Hertzégowine". litencyc.com. Retrieved 2014-10-14.
- ^ Sylvester, R.D. (2003). Tchaikovsky's Complete Songs: A Companion with Texts and Translations. Indiana University Press. p. 216. ISBN 9780253216762. Retrieved 2014-10-14.
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External links[]
- La Guzla, in: Mérimée, Prosper (1842), Chronique du règne de Charles IX, Charpentier
- Jovanović, Vojislav Mate (1911), "La Guzla" by Prosper Mérimée (Project Gutenberg)
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