The Eloquent Peasant

The complaints of the peasants, ( story of the eloquent peasant, The loquacious man oasis, Bauer history and similar) is a medium- Egyptian literary work, which plays in the First Intermediate Period and has been handed down to six papyrus fragments.

Formation

The date of composition of the work has been mostly dated to the First Intermediate Period or early Middle Kingdom. Recent research tends but for the 12th Dynasty. The complaints of the peasants were still known in the Ramesside Period.

Content

The low Asked Bauer Chui -ni - Anup (also Chu -en Anubis ) draws from his residence, the Wadi Natrun from the Nile Valley, there to sell products. In the Nile Valley, he is robbed on flimsy pretexts from serf tenants Thoth - night or, according to other manuscripts, Nemti night, his entire possessions. Chui -ni - Anup then goes after Herakleopolis and turns to Rensi, the owner and manager of the Nemti night and top money managers of the king. Rensi consults with his " councils " and lets the request of the Chui -ni - Anup unanswered. Then begins the farmer to bring an action against Rensi speeches, in which he discusses the Maat, order, justice and injustice, and presupposes equality of rights between rich and poor. After the first speech Rensi not answer, but reports to the king Nebkaure Khety about it. This arranges of interest to continue to let the words of the peasants unanswered and record it for themselves, and secondly to provide for the livelihood of the farmers. After the third question believes the farmer to have prevailed and will be punished with flogging, in the next few days he continues with other speeches. Finally, the ninth and final speech, he finally holds the position for quite hopeless and wishes himself to death in order to complain to the god of the dead Anubis on Rensi. Finally law he is given, Rensi can read him his speeches and then pass them to the interested king; Thoth - night is passed with its entire ownership of Chui -ni - Anup. The last rest of the story is no longer maintained.