Kahlil Gibran

Broschiertes Buch

The Prophet

Beschreibung

The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream. A spiritual masterpiece set in prose poetry, The Prophet follows the advice of the prophet Al Mustafa as he gives his insight on the intricacies of life and the human condition. His thoughts comprise those on love, marriage, children, giving, eating and drinking, work, joy and sorrow, houses, clothes, buying and selling, crime and punishment, laws, freedom, reason and passion, pain, self-knowledge, teaching, friendship, talking, time, good and evil, prayer, pleasure, beauty, religion, and death. A penetrating work, The Prophet also includes twelve drawings by Gibran himself.

Autor

Khalil Gibran (January 6, 1883 - April 10, 1931) was a Lebanese-American writer, poet, and visual artist. Gibran was born in the town of Bsharri in the Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate, Ottoman Empire (modern-day Lebanon). As a pre-teen Gibran emigrated with his family to the United States, where he studied art and began his literary career, writing in both English and Arabic. In the Arab world, Gibran is regarded as a literary and political rebel. His romantic style was at the heart of a renaissance in modern Arabic literature, especially prose poetry, breaking away from the classical school. In Lebanon, he is still celebrated as a literary hero. A member of the New York Pen League, he is chiefly known in the English-speaking world for his 1923 book The Prophet, an early example of inspirational fiction including a series of philosophical essays written in poetic English prose. The book sold well despite a cool critical reception, gaining popularity in the 1930s and again especially in the 1960s counterculture. Gibran is the third-best-selling poet of all time, behind Shakespeare and Laozi.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sde Classics
• Seitenzahl: 104
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 133mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 138g
• ISBN-13: 9781949982329
• ISBN-10: 1949982327
• Artikelnr.: 60800276