The ""Kim Van Kieu"" of Nguyen Du (17651820) (Studies of Southeast Asia)

by K. W. Taylor (Introduction), Nguyen Du (Author), Vladislav Zhukov (Translator)

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  2013

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  The Kim Van Kieu of Nguyen Du, written in the early nineteenth century and commonly considered to be a defining masterpiece of Vietnamese literature, is the story of an educated and beautiful young woman who suffers misfortune and degradation before obtaining justice and peace. It is a long poem in a complex metric and rhyme scheme that is distinctively Vietnamese. Vladislav Zhukov here provides the first English-language translation, perfectly conveying the poetic form of the original work and thereby producing a literary creation in English that is equivalent to Nguyen Du's genius in Vietnamese-one that can be appreciated as poetry in English.