ANCIENT EGYPTIAN “THE SONG OF ARFISTA”: ARTISTIC TRANSLATION IN UKRAINIAN AND COMMENTS
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https://doi.org/10.28925/2412-2475.2018.1219Keywords:
ancient Egyptian literature, philosophical lyrics, afterlife literatureAbstract
The translation of the world-famous ancient Egyptian text “Song of the Harper,” although it is absolutely
authentic with respect to the original, does not pay tribute to literalism. Accents were made primarily
on the artistry, on the aesthetics of literary creativity, which dominated in the ancient Egyptian literature
of the period of the New Kingdom. The preface to the translation (which is a kind of commentary
on the text) gives a wide literary context of the work (the ancient oriental cultural environment, primarily
Sumerian-Akkadian and Hebrew), reveals the meaning of the Harper Song for the further development
of the world literary process.
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