Format:
140 Seiten
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23 cm
Edition:
Second soft cover edition
ISBN:
9781933823225
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1933823224
Uniform Title:
Poems
Content:
Obeyd-e Zakani, who died in 1372 is among the great poets of Iran but little known in the West. This selection of his work is the first to be translated into English. Obeyd was a remarkable satirist and social critic who looked upon his world of extravagant indulgence and corruption with the censorious eyes of a Juvenal, and portrayed it with the cynicism and wit of a Voltaire, and the hilarious grotesqueness of a Rabelais. He used scathing stories and sardonic maxims to paint a world full of deceit, greed, lust, sycophancy, and perversion, where old values and virtues were scorned and extremes of wealth and poverty, violence and bloodshed were the order of the day
Note:
"Including Cat & Mouse translated by Dick Davis."
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Introduction -- Ethics of the aristocrats -- Definitions -- The treatise of one hundred maxims -- The joyous treatise -- Stories from the Arabic -- Persian anecdotes -- Cat & mouse
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Author information:
ʿUbaid Zākānī 1300-1370
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