Synopsis
The Tale of the Two Brothers, Bata and Anpu, is a New Kingdom text and one of the best-known tales in all of Egyptian literature. Although it is considered a literary text, it was written with great simplicity and, apparently, without any literary pretension, being clearly timeless. It contains two distinct parts. The first presents a universal theme: the interest and anger of a woman towards a man she has no right to love and who, despite him refusing her advances, ends up denouncing him to her husband as having tried to rape her; the second part, the solitary life of a man far from everything and everyone, where magic and the wonderful, the extraordinary and the unusual are a constant. This text allows two essential types of reading: a literal reading, or manifest content (confrontation with the material, intellectual and geographical knowledge of the time in which it was written), and a metaphorical reading, or underlying content (analysis of the symbols it contains, prefiguring an allegory, created to remain hidden beyond literal reading).
PublishedDecember 5, 2022SeriesCopyright (c) 2023 Coimbra University PressThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
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ISBN-13 (15)978-989-26-2318-4doi10.14195/978-989-26-2318-4
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