Lord of the Panther SkinSUNY Press, 1 janv. 1977 - 240 pages This classic medieval romance of chivalry by an outstanding figure in a brilliant period of Georgian literature has affinities with both the Persian tradition and that of the West. |
Table des matières
Prologue | 3 |
Of Rostevan the king of the Arabs | 6 |
How King Rostevan and Avtandil went hunting | 11 |
How the king of the Arabs saw the lord of the pantherskin | 12 |
How Tinatin charged Avtandil with the quest for the stranger lord | 16 |
How Avtandil wrote out a charge to his vassals | 21 |
How Avtandil went in search of the stranger lord | 23 |
How Avtandil told Asmat his story at the cave | 29 |
How Avtandil found Tariel lying in a swoon | 104 |
How Tariel told of the killing of the lion and the panther | 109 |
How Tariel and Avtandil returned to the cave and found Asmat | 110 |
How Avtandil set out for Pridons city | 114 |
How Avtandil journeyed to Pridons city | 116 |
How Avtandil departed from Pridons realm to search for NestanDarejan and how he met with a caravan | 123 |
How Avtandil arrived in Gulansharo | 127 |
How Fatima conceived a passion for Avtandil | 130 |
How Tariel and Avtandil met | 34 |
How Tariel told Avtandil his tale | 38 |
How Tariel fell in love | 41 |
NestanDarejans first letter to her lover | 46 |
How Tariel sent a letter to the Cathayans | 47 |
How Nestan summoned Tariel | 48 |
How the Cathayan king sent Tariel his reply | 49 |
How Tariel rode to Cathay and fought a great battle there | 51 |
How Tariel wrote to the king of the Indians and how he returned home in triumph | 56 |
How NestanDarejan wrote to her lover | 59 |
How Tariel wept and swooned | 60 |
How Tariel wrote in answer to his lady | 61 |
How Tariel and NestanDarejan took counsel together and made a plan | 63 |
How the Khvarizmshahs son came to India to be married and how Tariel killed him | 66 |
How Tariel learned of the carryingoff of NestanDarejan | 69 |
How Tariel met NuradinPridon | 71 |
How Tariel gave help to Pridon | 74 |
How Tariel received word of NestanDarejan from Pridon | 75 |
How Avtandil returned to Arabia | 81 |
How Avtandil dispatched a request to King Rostevan and how the vizier gave utterance | 87 |
How Avtandil talked with Shermadin | 93 |
How Avtandil wrote a testament for the eyes of King Rostevan | 94 |
How Avtandil prayed | 97 |
How Avtandil set out to rejoin Tariel | 99 |
How Avtandil replied to Fatima | 131 |
How Fatima told of NestanDarejan | 134 |
How Fatima told Avtandil of the Kajes capture of NestanDarejan | 146 |
How Fatima wrote to NestanDarejan | 153 |
How NestanDarejan wrote to Fatima | 154 |
How NestanDarejan wrote to her lover | 155 |
How Avtandil wrote to Pridon | 158 |
How Avtandil departed from Gulansharo and returned to Tariel | 159 |
How Tariel and Avtandil journeyed to Pridons realm | 165 |
How NuradinPridon put forward a plan | 167 |
How Avtandil put forward a plan | 168 |
How Tariel went to meet the king of the Seas | 172 |
How Pridon held a marriage festival for Tariel and NestanDarejan | 176 |
How the three heroes went to Tariels cave and thence to Arabia | 179 |
How the king of the Arabs held a marriage festival for Avtandil and Tinatin | 186 |
How Tariel learned of the death of the king of the Indians | 189 |
How Tariel arrived in India and how the Cathayans made submission to him | 192 |
How the marriage of Tariel and NestanDarejan was celebrated | 196 |
Epilogue | 200 |
Personal beauty and planetary imagery | 201 |
Generous weeping and the demonstrative gesture | 203 |
NOTES | 205 |
A GEORGIAN PERSPECTIVE | 221 |
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Expressions et termes fréquents
Arabic arms Asmat Avtandil replied beauty behold blood breast bring brother brought burned Cathayans cave cheeks Chrétien de Troyes Cligés crystal cypress darkness David the Builder death earth endure enemies eyes face fair fair lord Fate Fatima filled Firdausi fires flame gave Georgian gifts give gone grief grieve hand heard heart heavens hero horse Husain India Indians Kajes Kajeti kill king kissed lashes Layla and Majnun light lion look lover maiden moon Nestan Nestan-Darejan never oath once palace Panther-skin Parsadan pearls Persian poem poet praise Pridon quatrains queen Ramaz rejoiced rode rose Rostevan ruby Rustaveli Rustaveli's sake shed tears Shermadin Shota Rustaveli slaughter slave sorrow soul speak story stranger lord sun-fair lady swoon sword tale tandil Tbilisi tell thought throne Tinatin told tongue treasure turned Visramiani vizier warriors weeping wept woes words young lord