Three brave, five just
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Three brave, five just
6.99 €
5.59 €
"Three Brave Men, Five Just Men" is considered in China as the first classical detective, the first chivalric and adventurous novel. To this day, it is compared to the book "The Three Musketeers" by Alexandre Dumas.
The manuscript is based on the oral stories of the famous Chinese storyteller of the 19th century, Shi Yu-Kun. According to legend, the idea for the novel was suggested to him by an allegorical painting hanging on the wall in which a cat was chasing a butterfly. The painting symbolized a wish for long life, and the future novel inherited from it hidden symbolism and references to the fairy-tale Chinese tradition. A whole corpus of ancient legends and legends was also not forgotten.
The action of the novel takes the reader to the XI century, during the Song dynasty. The main character is the legendary sage, Judge Bao, who had a real prototype and was deified later as one of the judges of the afterlife. Together with a group of wandering warriors, each with an exceptional martial art, he wages an irreconcilable struggle against corruption and crime.
The manuscript is based on the oral stories of the famous Chinese storyteller of the 19th century, Shi Yu-Kun. According to legend, the idea for the novel was suggested to him by an allegorical painting hanging on the wall in which a cat was chasing a butterfly. The painting symbolized a wish for long life, and the future novel inherited from it hidden symbolism and references to the fairy-tale Chinese tradition. A whole corpus of ancient legends and legends was also not forgotten.
The action of the novel takes the reader to the XI century, during the Song dynasty. The main character is the legendary sage, Judge Bao, who had a real prototype and was deified later as one of the judges of the afterlife. Together with a group of wandering warriors, each with an exceptional martial art, he wages an irreconcilable struggle against corruption and crime.
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