Siyabaslakara is the name of the classical Sinhala treatise on poetics, a work long studied as part of the older literary tradition of the island and familiar to anyone who has worked through Sinhala literature at university or in a pirivena. Norman Siripala's book takes that title as its subject.
The text is in Sinhala throughout, printed in Sinhala script. There is no English translation or parallel text, so a reader who does not read Sinhala comfortably will not be able to use it. Buyers outside Sri Lanka should be clear about that before ordering.
It is published by Godage International Publishers, a Colombo house that issues Sinhala and English titles across literature, language, history and scholarship, including a steady list of works on classical Sinhala texts.
This will suit students and teachers of Sinhala language and literature, readers following the classical poetic tradition, and Sinhala readers abroad building a shelf of literary and scholarly titles from home.
- Author: Norman Siripala
- Publisher: Godage International Publishers
- Language: Sinhala
- Pages: 264
- ISBN: 9786240005111
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