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    Saga From Azerbaijan: Popular Sagas from Caucasus, #1
    Saga From Azerbaijan: Popular Sagas from Caucasus, #1
    Saga From Azerbaijan: Popular Sagas from Caucasus, #1
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    Saga From Azerbaijan: Popular Sagas from Caucasus, #1

    By Jose Fernandes da Silva

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    What is it that leads Badam, the main hero, to become in the first chapter from beggar to millionaire?

    Where does Ferbad get so much gold that every week he offers banquets to the poor and beggars and, at the end of the meal, presents each one of them with a plate or cap of gold?

    How is the fact that the merchant Zohrab, after selling his goods with great profits, calls the buyers back and, returning the money, restores the goods and makes them a bonfire?

    Why is it that the blacksmith Iskander, putting the iron on the anvil, barely raises the hammer to flot it, throws the tool to one side and runs like a madman towards the cemetery, where he embraces three tombs in succession and leaves fall bitter tears?

    You will have there a story that includes several other stories, each one of them with its hero and main narrator, narrating its adventures to a central hero, named Badam, in his wanderings around the world in search of somebody who could be more generous than him.

    When you start reading this book, you will not be able to stop, because the motivations created by the expectations in your various shenanigans will not allow it.

    By purchasing this book you will be investing a ridiculous sum in obtaining a product that will be enjoyed for a long time and that will be a great gift for a dear person.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJosé Fernandes da Silva
    Release dateApr 15, 2018
    ISBN9781311952783
    Saga From Azerbaijan: Popular Sagas from Caucasus, #1
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    Jose Fernandes da Silva

    José Fernandes da Silva, nascido em 17 de dezembro de 1935, no município de Patos de Minas, Estado de Minas Gerais, Fez curso de Mestrado em 1986, na Universidade de Estocolmo (Suécia), com a tese A CONSTRUÇÃO ARTÍSTICA EM SAGARANA: Uma Análise Estrutural Semiótica em João Guimarães Rosa; cursou Doutorado em 2002, pela Universidade Paulista de São José o Rio Preto, com a tese: A Semiótica do Texto Narrativo literário; foi professor de Literatura, Teoria Literária e Semiótica, na Universidade Católica de Goiás (hoje PUC-GOIÁS), durante 20 anos; e é atualmente professor aposentado, dedicado à tradução do sueco para o português e gravação de textos narrativos.

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      Saga From Azerbaijan - Jose Fernandes da Silva

      MARY

      Biography

      Presentation

      Chapter I: Badam and Dervish

      Chapter II: Badam, Ferbad and Zohrab

      Chapter III: The unfortunate story blacksmith Iskander

      Chapter IV: The tragic story of merchant Zohrab

      Chapter V: The unsuccessful heritage

      Chapter VI: Ferbad and the wanderful lamp

      BIOGRAPHY

      José Fernandes da Silva, born December 17, 1935 in Patos de Minas, Minas Gerais, did a Master’s degree in 1986 at the University of Stockholm (Sweden), with a thesis on the Artistic Construction in Sagarana: A Structural and Semiotic Analysis  of João Guimarães Rosa. He attained a PhD in 2002, at the Paulist University of São José do Rio Preto, with the thesis: Semiotics in the Literary Narrative Text. He was Professor of Literature, Literary Theory and Semiotics at the  Catholic University of Goiás (now the Pontifical Catholic University of Goiás (PUC-GOIÁS), for 20 years, and is now a retired teacher.

      PRESENTATION

      Sagas are folkloric and fantastic-realistic epic narratives which speak of events related to life, customs, beliefs and desires of a certain people; in this case, the people of the Caucasian world, in a period referring to antiquity.

      They are mostly heroic narratives, in which the heroes are both men and women, and that ethical factors such as courage, bravery, loyalty, honor, faith, are the main themes brought to light. The narratives published in this book are part of a series of 17 narratives.

      CHAPTER I

      Badam and Dervish

      There was once in antiquity, a poor pity called Badam. He was so poor that hadn’t even a hut, where he could seek shelter from the cold and the bad weather. In the summer, he slept in the street, under any coverage or in the open sky. But now the winter was near, and the poor Badam would have to endure all inclemency of that season.

      Finally, our poor fellow decided to dig a cave for himself. He went to some residents and orrowed from them a pickaxe and a shovel. By compassion, they didn't denied him the request. Badam returned then with the tools, chose a well-suited place and began to dig. He had already arrived at a certain depth, when suddenly struck something that, immediately, saw there were seven pots of clay full of gold. His joy had no limits. He pulled out a handful of gold, covered the pots with the earth already extracted and went to the city center. There he sold the gold and, with the money he had raised, contracted  workers and ordered them to construct around that place a high wall. Then he adjusted engineers and builders and, offering them a good sum of money, ordered them the construction of building that, by its grandeur and beauty, should surpass all in that region.

      The work developed for a whole year,

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