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Perhaps the most notable work from this time, however, is of a very different nature, the ''Šuḍūkūmi maiva'' (Dead Man's Word). It can be considered Calémere's earliest example of crime fiction. Of unknown author, it is a poem in verse about two monks investigating the death of a man whose corpse had been found by the entrance of their monastery in the Laišakamima mountains (i.e. in the Toyubeshian area), apparently killed by heretic rebels. Three of the four surviving manuscripts, however, have somewhat different endings (the other one stops halfway through the poem), contributing to the halo of mystery surrounding the work, which is, however, considered a landmark work of Chlouvānem literature. | Perhaps the most notable work from this time, however, is of a very different nature, the ''Šuḍūkūmi maiva'' (Dead Man's Word). It can be considered Calémere's earliest example of crime fiction. Of unknown author, it is a poem in verse about two monks investigating the death of a man whose corpse had been found by the entrance of their monastery in the Laišakamima mountains (i.e. in the Toyubeshian area), apparently killed by heretic rebels. Three of the four surviving manuscripts, however, have somewhat different endings (the other one stops halfway through the poem), contributing to the halo of mystery surrounding the work, which is, however, considered a landmark work of Chlouvānem literature. | ||
Last but not least, the latter part of the age of the Toyubeshian Expansion was marked by one of the most important events affecting not just Chlouvānem literature, but their whole society: the invention of the first printing press, in the year 5541, by inventor Hulyāchlærimi Taināvi ''Hūyurhūlgin''<ref>Name conventions of the era are somewhat different from today's: this name should be read as "Hūyurhūlgin, son of Tainā, daughter of Hulyāchlærim."</ref> in the city of | Last but not least, the latter part of the age of the Toyubeshian Expansion was marked by one of the most important events affecting not just Chlouvānem literature, but their whole society: the invention of the first printing press, in the year 5541, by inventor Hulyāchlærimi Taināvi ''Hūyurhūlgin''<ref>Name conventions of the era are somewhat different from today's: this name should be read as "Hūyurhūlgin, son of Tainā, daughter of Hulyāchlærim."</ref> in the city of Tumyāṣrālam on the lower Lāmberah, not far from its confluence with the Lāmyejāya (today episcopal seat of Ājusṝva). | ||
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