Rumi's Little Book of Love and Laughter: Teaching Stories and Fables - Brossura

Barks, Coleman

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1571747613 ISBN 13: 9781571747617

Casa editrice: Hampton Roads Pub Co Inc, 2016

Riassunto

Rowdy, ecstatic, and sometimes stern, these teaching stories and fables reveal new and very human properties in Rumi's vision. Included here are the notorious "Latin parts" that Reynold Nicholson felt were too unseemly to appear in English in his 1920s translation. For Rumi, anything that human beings do--however compulsive--affords a glimpse into the inner life.

Here are more than 40 fables or teaching stories that deal with love, laughter, death, betrayal, and the soul. The stories are exuberant, earthy, and bursting with vitality--much like a painting by Hieronymus Bosch or Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The characters are guilty, lecherous, tricky, ribald, and finally possessors of opened souls.

Barks writes: "These teaching stories are a kind of scrimshaw--intricately carved, busy figures, confused and threatening, and weirdly funny.

This is an entertaining collection from one of the greatest spiritual poets of all time, rendered by his most popular translator.

"The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along."--Rumi

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Coleman Barks (born 1937) is an American poet. Although he neither speaks nor reads Persian, he is nonetheless renowned as an interpreter of Rumi and other mystic poets of Persia.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Hampton Roads Pub Co Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1571747613
• ISBN 13: 9781571747617
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 223