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Layli And Majnun
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Description: The Persian epic that inspired Eric Clapton's unforgettable love song " Layla" and that Lord Byron called "the Romeo and Juliet of the East " in a masterly new translation A Penguin Classic The iconic love story of the Middle East by a twelfth - century Persian poet who has been compared to Shakespeare for his subtlety inventiveness and dramatic force Layli and Majnun tells of star - crossed lovers whose union is tragically thwarted by their families and whose passion continues to ripple out across the centuries. Theirs is a love that lasts a lifetime and in Nezami's immortal telling erotic longing blends with spiritual self - denial in an allegory of Sufi aspiration as the amenities of civilization give way to the elemental wilderness desire is sublimated into a mystical renunciation of the physical world and the soul confronts its essence. This is a tour de force of Persian literature in a translation that captures the extraordinary power and virtuosity of the original.
Title: Layli And Majnun
Author(s): Ganjavi Nezami
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Barcode: 9780143133995
Pages: 320 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 2/9/2021
Category: Poetry By Individual Poets
Description: The Persian epic that inspired Eric Clapton's unforgettable love song " Layla" and that Lord Byron called "the Romeo and Juliet of the East " in a masterly new translation A Penguin Classic The iconic love story of the Middle East by a twelfth - century Persian poet who has been compared to Shakespeare for his subtlety inventiveness and dramatic force Layli and Majnun tells of star - crossed lovers whose union is tragically thwarted by their families and whose passion continues to ripple out across the centuries. Theirs is a love that lasts a lifetime and in Nezami's immortal telling erotic longing blends with spiritual self - denial in an allegory of Sufi aspiration as the amenities of civilization give way to the elemental wilderness desire is sublimated into a mystical renunciation of the physical world and the soul confronts its essence. This is a tour de force of Persian literature in a translation that captures the extraordinary power and virtuosity of the original.
Title: Layli And Majnun
Author(s): Ganjavi Nezami
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Barcode: 9780143133995
Pages: 320 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 2/9/2021
Category: Poetry By Individual Poets