Carmen in Igbo (Carmen n’asụsụ Igbo)

Description

Carmen in Igbo: Prosper Mérimée’s novella of the soldier Don José and Carmen in Andalusia.

Original author: Prosper Mérimée. Original title: Carmen. Translated into Igbo from the English text (the work was first written in French).

N’oge mgbụsị akwụkwọ nke afọ 1830, otu ọka mmụta si France nọ na njem na Andalusia zutere otu onye ọbịbịa dị egwu n’ugwu.

N’oge na-adịghị anya, na Cordoba, ọ zutere otu nwa agbọghọ gipsy. Onye ọbịbịa ahụ bụ Don Jose, nwa agbọghọ ahụ bụkwa Carmen.

Ọnwa ole na ole ka e mesịrị, Jose nọ n’ụlọ mkpọrọ na-eche ka a kwụgbuo ya, ọ kọọrọ ọka mmụta ahụ otu o si tufuo ihe niile n’ihi Carmen.

Obere akwụkwọ akụkọ nke Bizet ji mee opera ya, n’uju n’asụsụ Igbo.

Akwụkwọ a nwere isi anọ niile n’uju, gụnyere isi nke anọ, ebe onye na-akọ akụkọ ahụ na-ekwu banyere ndị gipsy nke Spen na asụsụ ha.

About this edition: translated from the English text of Project Gutenberg #2465 (Lady Mary Loyd’s English translation). Paperback, 152 x 229 mm, 76 pages, published by Colombo Aspen. Cover painting: Édouard Manet, Portrait of Émilie Ambre as Carmen, 1880 (Philadelphia Museum of Art).