Original sentence: In this often-comic novel, two Homeric scholars from Ireland by way of Harvard University plan to investigate the tradition of oral epic poetry in the rural habitats of Albania where historical epics are composed and sung by itinerant minstrels as popular entertainment.One interpretation of the story is a metaphor for why legends continue to be believed despite our attempts to discover the truth, and highlights the difficulty that the modern world has in truly understanding past, or even rural, civilizations.The File on H.The novel also considers the passing of the epic form as a means of recording and retelling history and questions the nature of civilization itself as art forms are lost to development and technology.The scholars travel to Albania with a tape recorder to study the phenomenon and record samples of the singing and the changes over time in multiple recordings of the same song, the study of which would give them an answer whether Homer was an editor or a writer.Their main interest is in the variations on the tradition exemplified in the work of individual singers, how historical events are woven into poetry, and whether there is regional bias in their interpretations.Their work is attacked by the Serbian pastor because the scholars favor the Albanian epic poetry as original and the Serbian as an imitation.When they reach their destination, they are confronted by suspicious provincial townspeople and a paranoid local governor, who sends spies after them, convinced that they themselves are spies of some sort.is a novel by the Albanian author Ismail Kadare
Edited sentence: As a lid of all is the attack of the Serbian pastor because the scholars favore the Albanian epic poetry as original and the Serbian as an imitation.The File on H is a novel by the Albanian author Ismail Kadare.The scholars travel to Albania with a tape recorder to study the phenomenon and record samples of the singing, which study would give them an answer about that is Homer was an editor or a writer.The story is a metaphor for why legends remain mythic despite our attempts to discover the truth, and highlights the difficulty that the modern world has in truly understanding past civilizations.Their main interest is in the variations on the tradition exemplified in the work of individual singers and whether there is regional bias in their interpretations.Two Homeric scholars from Ireland, plan to investigate the tradition of oral epic poetry in the rural habitats of Albania where historical epics are composed and sung by itinerant minstrels as popular entertainment.When they reach their destination, they are confronted by suspicious provincial townspeople and a paranoid local governor, who sends a spy after them