Hir varis sah. Poème panjabi du XVIIIe siècle
by Denis Matringe

The bulk of the book consists in the thoroughly annotated French translation of the first 110 stanzas of Varis sah’s poem Hir, completed in 1767. The introduction (pp. 5-72) is about the conditions of literary creation in 18th century Panjab, the author, the legend of Hir and Ranjha which is the basis of the poem, the genre of the qissa (an epico-lyric narrative in rhymed stanzas), the poetics and the literary language of the work (characterized by its archaisms, its dialectal mixity, its low rate of Persian loanwords), the manuscripts and editions. The book includes a summary in English.