THE poet Sunthorn Phu took more than 20 years to write his masterpiece Phra Abhai Mani. It has often been criticised as being a story without end, written to earn a living. On the one hand, it is the story of the protagonist's strange loves with four women, namely, the Sea Giantess, the Mermaid, the Eastern Princess Suvarnamali, and the Western Princess Laweng.
Interestingly, Phra Abhai Mani had two prodigious sons, Sin Samudr and Sud Sakorn, born of the Sea Giantess and the Mermaid respectively. With the gentle Princess Suvarnamali, he had twin daughters. The charming and cun-ning Princess Laweng bore him an ungrateful and misguided son. Consequently, she repulsed any further amorous advances from Phra Abhai Mani lest they should have another bad child.
On the other hand, Sunthorn Phu's work presents a picture of the world governed by science and technology. There are things anticipating machinegun, ocean liner, aeroplane and technological warfare. The whole work is permeated with things which could be interpreted in technological terms.
THE poet Sunthorn Phu took more than 20 years to write his masterpiece Phra Abhai Mani. It has often been criticised as being a story without end, written to earn a living. On the one hand, it is the story of the protagonist's strange loves with four women, namely, the Sea Giantess, the Mermaid, the Eastern Princess Suvarnamali, and the Western Princess Laweng.
Interestingly, Phra Abhai Mani had two prodigious sons, Sin Samudr and Sud Sakorn, born of the Sea Giantess and the Mermaid respectively. With the gentle Princess Suvarnamali, he had twin daughters. The charming and cun-ning Princess Laweng bore him an ungrateful and misguided son. Consequently, she repulsed any further amorous advances from Phra Abhai Mani lest they should have another bad child.
On the other hand, Sunthorn Phu's work presents a picture of the world governed by science and technology. There are things anticipating machinegun, ocean liner, aeroplane and technological warfare. The whole work is permeated with things which could be interpreted in technological terms.
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