The Book of Dede Korkut is a collection of twelve stories set in
the heroic age of the Oghuz Turks, a nomadic tribe who had
journeyed westwards through Central Asia from the ninth century
onwards. The stories are peopled by characters as bizarre as they
are unforgettable: Crazy Karchar, whose unpredictability requires
an army of fleas to manage it; Kazan, who cheerfully pretends to
necrophilia in order to escape from prison; the monster Goggle-eye;
and the heroine Chichek, who shoots, races on horseback and
wrestles her lover. Geoffrey Lewis's classic translation retains
the odd and oddly appealing style of the stories, with their
mixture of the colloquial, the poetic and the dignified, and
magnificently conveys the way in which they bring to life a wild
society and its inhabitants. This edition also includes an
introduction, a map and explanatory notes.
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